CPTPP threat to national sovereignty


Lim Chee Han

The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership confers foreign investors with greater protection and rights, such as 'fair and equitable treatment' so that the investors can expect to enjoy policies that treat them as well as, if not better than, the locals. – EPA pic, December 15, 2022.

THE Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) came into force on 29 November, 60 days after ratification by Malaysia.

The decision to join the pact happened six days before the House was dissolved without parliamentary scrutiny and debate.


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