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Maybe. But all of those big business are using the opportunity to basically bypass sovereignty in the western world, as well as ram a lot of other harmful legis
by beagle3 12y ago
Maybe. But all of those big business are using the opportunity to basically bypass sovereignty in the western world, as well as ram a lot of other harmful legislation.
So it's not all about China anymore - and in fact, East Asia is basically independent of the way it will be felt by most people. So practically speaking, it isn't about China and East Asia at all.
- xnull2guest 12y agoTo have a good understanding of why the USG wants the TPP, yes, it's about China. As citizens we feel that inequality of wealth opportunity is the high, urgent priority - and that tools inside the TPP will exacerbate these issues. As the government the existential threat to the US hegemonic uni-power world order - and by extension the political power and much of the economic opportunity and strategic interests of the US - is the high, urgent threat. TPP is a bad deal because it only seeks to solve one of these and may actively harm the other - but I remember Obama saying something to the effect of "find me a better deal."
- tomp 12y agoA better deal in a "free trade agreement" is just that - a free trade agreement. Enforcement and length of IP rights, the ability of corporations to extrajudicially sue governments, GMOs (as is the case in the Trans-Atlantic trade agreement) etc. has nothing to do with free trade, i.e. trade without import taxes.
- xnull2guest 12y agoThe TPP is not merely a free trade deal. It is a trade deal made exclusively to isolate China, and then allow it to participate in a few years only if it (China) follows certain rules (i.e. Western Intellectual Property law).