The Trans-Pacific Partnership will also attract other countries to its system of high standards for openness; South Korea and some Southeast Asian nations have expressed an interest in joining the TPP if the U.S. enacts it.
If China truly lives up to the high standards of economic openness, it would deny the opponents of globalization a major rallying cry.
Members of the OGP commit to increasing the availability of information about governmental activities; support civic participation; implementing the highest standards of professional integrity throughout their administrations; and increasing access to new technologies for openness and accountability.
Yet, despite the country's phenomenal economic success, resultant high standards of living, and subsequent goal of internationalization, the government's policies of developmental paternalism bred some discontent among those who had come to expect greater openness to new ideas and a freer flow of information.
Higher standards of education?
"The minister issued a message to all health and social care staff in March 2012 setting out clearly his commitment to the highest possible standards of conduct, openness, honesty and accountability.
The Open Government Partnership (OGP), launched last month at the UN, sets basic standards of openness, such as publishing a draft state budget.
