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United States and Japan are relatively isolated in their negotiating positions. This could bode poorly for the United States as it seeks to shape the TPP to it

United States and Japan are relatively isolated in their negotiating positions. This could bode poorly for the United States as it seeks to shape the TPP to its liking. Actually this bodes well for the USA. The greatest enemy of the USA on these IP issues is the powerful and moneyed insider lobbies that want to destroy our freedom for a few more dollars. If the US negotiators who are controlled by those interests might be frustrated, that's the best news the American people could get.

dba7dba 13y ago
In another word, US lobby industry has met its greatest challenge so far and it's called other nations? I wonder how US lobby firms will deal with foreign nations...
malandrew 13y ago
It would be nice if the news stopped using the term "The United States" for all these sorts of stories and instead qualified them more precisely. e.g. "US special interest groups representing the intellectual property lobby isolated in the Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations"
- agravier 13y ago
  It would also be good to to that for other countries as well, of course.
- gdy 13y ago
  If not for the fact that these groups act with consent of the government elected by the people of the United States.
  - sp332 13y ago
    Actually, Congress hasn't been allowed to see the treaty either.