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Wasn't this a big point of the TPP? To even the playing field. Instead we went the other direction.
by meddlepal 9y ago
Wasn't this a big point of the TPP? To even the playing field. Instead we went the other direction.
- princeb 9y agoshort answer: no, China was not a partner to the TPP. long answer: getting a multilateral trade agreement with nearly all of China's trade partners in Asia-Pacific will influence trade standards in China, but not to the extent that China will do anything about this JV requirement.
- gok 9y agoChina’s exclusion was in fact a point of TPP. The other members would have had a better shot at being able to enforce rules that China ignores (state aid, intellectual property, etc).
- fragsworth 9y agoChina was not a party in the TPP.