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The amazing thing is there is next to no coverage in the US press (as of right now, there is one article in the NY Times, from 2017). Trump threw out TPP, whic
by fmajid 6y ago
The amazing thing is there is next to no coverage in the US press (as of right now, there is one article in the NY Times, from 2017).
Trump threw out TPP, which was designed to isolate China, and in doing so managed to do the opposite, isolating the US economically from the entire Asia-Pacific region. This is going to massively favor China in its fight for economic dominance with the US for the next decades, and probably the greatest failure of policy in the last 50 years, yes, even worse than the Iraq war. India is the other great loser.
- repsilat 6y agoThere have been a few articles in the WSJ in the last couple of weeks. (Funnily enough, a Google search for `wsj rcep` turns up mostly articles written in Novembers-- Nov 2020, Nov 2019, Nov 2016...) Maybe this sort of thing doesn't interest the readers of the Times so much?
- j8hn 6y ago"Isolating the US economically from the entire Asia-Pacific region." Is this true? The US has a free trade agreement with Korea, recently signed a very limited free trade agreement with Japan with the expectation that it will be expanded. Also Vietnam has risen three spots to #8 on the list of trading partners with the US.