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13. China will take the USAs billions in trade but the other countries still have their TPP trade agreem

Mon Jan 23, 2017, 11:51 AM

Jan 2017

agreements. Countries like Canada, Mexico, Australia will continue without the USA.

China was never a signer of the TPP agreements, neither was Russia. They never wanted those small Asian-pacific, their neighbor countries to have any worker rights at all.

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TPP withdrawal Trump's first executive action Monday, sources say [View all] joshcryer Jan 2017 OP

Japan and China have already started regional trade talks Recursion Jan 2017 #1

Trump doesn't grasp geopolitics. joshcryer Jan 2017 #2

So here's one advantage of the short attention spans in Dumbfuckistan Recursion Jan 2017 #3

After thinking about it for awhile... joshcryer Jan 2017 #18

It's too labor friendly though Recursion Jan 2017 #19

Please give a link explaining how ISDS would "cover US's Ass" nikto Jan 2017 #23

How dare OTHER countries talk trade, without the US calling the shots? nikto Jan 2017 #25

They're free to, but we'd much rather have a hand in the agreement to protect our interests Recursion Jan 2017 #28

That's what Mickey Kantor would say nikto Jan 2017 #34

What is it about unions and minimum wages that bothers you? Recursion Jan 2017 #37

I would ask you the same question nikto Jan 2017 #47

I think I am starting to revise my thoughts on the TPP. nycbos Jan 2017 #4

Don't bother, there is no new evidence nikto Jan 2017 #26

China will now right the rules to trade in the pacific. nycbos Jan 2017 #30

Yeah, if China insists on LOW wages, poor environmental conditions, and NO regulations, that's bad nikto Jan 2017 #32

Err.. environmental and labor groups were part of the negotiation team Recursion Jan 2017 #38

I challenge you to back that up with a solid evidential link nikto Jan 2017 #46

Didn't think so. nikto Jan 2017 #48

Incapable of a factual response? nikto Jan 2017 #49

You offered no evidence for your ridiculous claim Recursion Jan 2017 #50

Thank you for some apparent substance, but ofcourse bias is unavoidable nikto Jan 2017 #51

1st impression is that ... nikto Jan 2017 #52

AFL-CIO's final weigh-In (after full-text was released and analyzed) nikto Jan 2017 #53

... SidDithers Jan 2017 #54

The US never ratified the agreement oberliner Jan 2017 #5

Exactly watoos Jan 2017 #10

What time does his his day start? Maybe he'll take today off, too. tom_kelly Jan 2017 #6

Oh goodie! Now China gets to set the rules for the Asian market, and Americans can look forward to BlueCaliDem Jan 2017 #7

China will take the USAs billions in trade but the other countries still have their TPP trade agreem Sunlei Jan 2017 #13

Yup. We've been screwed by ideologues and isolationists, and China is the dog that walks BlueCaliDem Jan 2017 #40

China was not going to be in TPP, so they could undercut TPP partner nations. TheBlackAdder Jan 2017 #15

Also, one BIG purpose of TPP was to ... nikto Jan 2017 #27

Trade from this market was going to happen regardless of TPP. joshcryer Jan 2017 #17

If TPP was a good plan for the public it would have been made public harun Jan 2017 #35

ALL trade deals are negotiated in secret for a reason! We were only ONE country in 12 BlueCaliDem Jan 2017 #39

Compassionate Conservatives harun Jan 2017 #42

What pushed Trumputin over the top was the ignorance of the American people. Period. BlueCaliDem Jan 2017 #43

Remember the good old days when I continually asked Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #8

The russian hackings & blackmail worked really well. Sunlei Jan 2017 #14

China isn't in a trade agreement with us, and will still export cheap stuff... brooklynite Jan 2017 #9

It's not about trade for me watoos Jan 2017 #11

This is just "reality show" theatrics. There never was a ratified TPP. PSPS Jan 2017 #12

yeah, i was gonna mention that. mopinko Jan 2017 #16

Yep. Rex Jan 2017 #20

Wrong. nikto Jan 2017 #24

Withdrawal from Trans-Pacific Partnership shifts U.S. role in world economy milestogo Jan 2017 #21

Good! nikto Jan 2017 #22

Why don't you want Vietnamese workers to have a minimum wage or independent labor unions? Recursion Jan 2017 #29

Vietnamese workers would have been kept poor, and their nation's environment, ruined nikto Jan 2017 #33

And you want to keep that happening. Recursion Jan 2017 #36

Keep what happening? That is a truncated, blurry answer. nikto Jan 2017 #45

It gets better: Blue_Tires Jan 2017 #31

This is exactly what President Obama warned us about, but ideologues on both sides played their BlueCaliDem Jan 2017 #41

Obama wasn't going to sign it, HRC said she was not for it. Rex Jan 2017 #44