Posted on 10/02/2016 6:35:00 PM PDT by ameribbean expat
Actually I can. But since it appears to be an effort to change the subject rather than address the flawed premise bathroomthat while China is not (yet) a partner in TPP they can (and undoubtedly will) benefit from it.
I was just wondering with which TPP countries China has a FTA, in order to take advantage of the “backdoor”-thing. Your premise, your subject.
They were starving because warlords and dictators wanted them dead. Same reason every famine occurs.
China has agreements with most, and is negotiations with the rest. Only Japan and South Korea -for obvious reasons- will probably never come to fruition.
TPP is just a failed attempt to reign in China’s influence in the region. But it won’t, there’s nothing preventing any partner from importing an unassembled kit from China then exporting the assembled version as “Made IN XXXXX”.
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