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Scootaloo

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4. What.

Sat May 23, 2015, 03:09 AM

May 2015

Okay, so. I want to make sure I am unpacking this correctly.

One of the nations included in the TPA is Malaysia.
Malaysia is considered a "Tier 3 Human trafficking violator" by the US state department.
Robert Menendez (of all people!) put in language that would deny trade perks to governments that engage in or ignore slavery.
Obama and the republicans got the language watered down, to let Malaysia in if Malaysia took active steps to fix the problem.
This language survived the fast-track vote.
Malaysia clearly has no plans to deal with the human trafficking problem it has, and if included in the TPP, has zero incentive to do so.

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It's more the blind eye towards slavery that worries me, Cali_Democrat Scootaloo May 2015 #43

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That's from the article. Wilms May 2015 #30

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