Blocking TPP was a disaster. TPP would have achieved everything the Trump administration has failed to achieve with China and has spent tens of billions of doll

Blocking TPP was a disaster. TPP would have achieved everything the Trump administration has failed to achieve with China and has spent tens of billions of dollars doing so in direct costs (the indirect costs are even higher and will last for decades). The major complaint about TPP was the IP protections. But the hypocrisy is that the lack of the IP protections is exactly the same people complain about China. There was absolutely no reason to block TPP, which in a nutshell, gave Chinese neighbors the opportunity to do business that the US was doing in China currently, and in return agree to implement an IP protection environment that everyone agrees China should have but doesn’t. Besides providing American (and non American) companies with multiple alternatives to China where their IP would not be stolen, it would have built massive American soft power with Chinese neighbors at absolutely no cost to Americans, since the business going to those countries was business being done in China anyways.