They did something weirder than dropping those bad provisions: they suspended them, in a way that allows the parties to agree to bring them into force in the fu

They did something weirder than dropping those bad provisions: they suspended them, in a way that allows the parties to agree to bring them into force in the future. My guess is this is so that the US might find it more appealing to join in the future on closer to their originally desired terms, but it is weird enough that it's very prone to misleading reporting from journalists and activists.