PM: We’d rather have EAEC than TPPA


TOKYO: Malaysia is not against the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agree­ment (TPPA), but it now favours the formation of the East Asia Economic Caucus (EAEC).

Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the country needed to renegotiate the terms of the TPPA so that smaller countries were given due consideration to compete against more powerful and developed nations.

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