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TPP was cancer. Every rich nation in the world profited off of precisely the kind of IP theft which TPP aimed to punish. It was kicking away the ladder which th
by jacobwilliamroy 7y ago
TPP was cancer. Every rich nation in the world profited off of precisely the kind of IP theft which TPP aimed to punish. It was kicking away the ladder which the U.S. U.K. France, South Korea and others had climbed before anyone else could get up it.
Liberal economics reeks of colonialism. "As above so below, everything in its rightful place. Let mexico grow avocados and let india make t-shirts and let the chinese build semiconductors. Lets's put all these people in their rightful places and engineer foreign policy to make sure they stay there forever."
- ahmedalsudani 7y agoIP enforcement was one provision among many. No deal is perfect.
- jacobwilliamroy 7y agoOne provision among many which stack the deck in favor of the U.S. and other rich nations. Even something as seemingly uncontroversial as the anti-corruption provisions would be deal breakers for many states. Compliance with such would require the establishment of a government arm specifically to investigate and punish corrupt officials. Who is going to pay for all of those bureaucrats, in a place like Vietnam, where people are literally selling their children just to stay alive? And investor-state arbitration? The ability for some random joe schmoe to sue a foreign government for violating a trade treaty? We saw how that shook out with the tobacco industry; the experience was so unpleasant that tobacco was actually banned from making use of the ISDS system laid out in TPP. Interfering with a state's ability to make and enforce it's own laws is NO BUENO. TPP makes sense from the perspective of a walmart shareholder, but to the states which walmart exploits, it's complete and utter lunacy backed by big guns and fat wallets.