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In reply to the discussion: TPP withdrawal Trump's first executive action Monday, sources say [View all]nycbos
(6,709 posts)30. China will now right the rules to trade in the pacific.
Last edited Wed Jan 25, 2017, 09:21 AM - Edit history (1)
That's what I think I am bothered by.
Maybe some alterations are a good idea. But a return to smoot-hawley is not an answer either.
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They're free to, but we'd much rather have a hand in the agreement to protect our interests
Recursion
Jan 2017
#28
Yeah, if China insists on LOW wages, poor environmental conditions, and NO regulations, that's bad
nikto
Jan 2017
#32
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
ALL trade deals are negotiated in secret for a reason! We were only ONE country in 12
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2017
#39
What pushed Trumputin over the top was the ignorance of the American people. Period.
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2017
#43
China isn't in a trade agreement with us, and will still export cheap stuff...
brooklynite
Jan 2017
#9
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
This is exactly what President Obama warned us about, but ideologues on both sides played their
BlueCaliDem
Jan 2017
#41
