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> "someone soemwhere has a good reason to oppose something" Especially since TPP is (in large part) designed to prevent China steamrolling entire industries an
by 542458 11y ago
> "someone soemwhere has a good reason to oppose something"
Especially since TPP is (in large part) designed to prevent China steamrolling entire industries and crushing foreign economies through shear size and sketchy economic measures. If the negotiations are public China has way more time to react to the measures, either by working around them or by threatening countries until they drop out.
TPP may or may not be a bad thing, but "negotiated in secret" doesn't make it bad.
- Coding_Cat 11y agoIf that would make China stop their "sketchy economic measures" I don't see an issue here.
- AnAfrican 11y agoI actually had internal constituencies in mind.. Goat Cheese farmers or Cab drivers have and will make hell if there's even one line that they deem unacceptable even if the whole thing could (not necessarily will) be beneficial for the whole country. And given the populist tendencies of the media on some topics, the people will probably agree.