In this week's international news review, Steve Okun, Senior Advisor, McLarty Associates, shares more about the kick off of the world's largest trade pact - which covers some 30 per cent or US$26 trillion (S$35 trillion) of global gross domestic product and 30 per cent of the world's population, the problem with the coverage of the anniversary of the insurrection on 6 January 2021, and more.