Membership bids filed just days apart by Beijing and Taipei have turned the 11-nation CPTPP trade bloc into the latest flashpoint in the push to build a global, rules-based trade order.

A Taiwan official has asked Australia to support its bid to join the CPTPP pan-Pacific trade pact.

Canada is giving China the cold shoulder over its interest in joining an 11-country Pacific Rim trading bloc that is viewed as an important gateway to diversifying Canadian trade with other Asian countries.

The former Australian prime minister Tony Abbott says the government should not allow a fear of inflaming tensions with China get in the way of accepting Taiwan’s bid to join the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact.

The UK is kicking off its first negotiation meeting with all 11 members of CPTPP - a major trans-Pacific bloc which includes Canada, Japan, Mexico and Australia.

Taiwan has filed an application to join a key Asia-Pacific trade pact just days after China submitted an application.

Vietnam stands ready to share information and experience with China in joining the CPTPP, spokeswoman of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs has said.

Việt Nam's export turnover in July to countries in the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP), reached US$3.98 billion, a 0.79 per cent increase from June and a 21.64 per cent increase from the same period last year.

China’s request to join the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for CPTPP landed on the desk of the trade minister of New Zealand on September 16th.

China is unlikely to be accepted into a Pacific Rim trade deal in the short term, but its application seeks to position it as embracing cooperation and opening up.