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In Da Nang Vietnam, Australia and 10 other countries have tried to revive the TPP without the US.
Even though the analysis of the TPP has shown that the so called 'free trade agreement' has only minimal benefits and many drawbacks for developed nations the Australian Prime Minister is still set on having the agreement ratified. The Australian Prime Minister may be trying to push through the TPP before his government collapses due to the citizenship audit which is rapidly culling members of his party which could result in his party losing power in parliament. With the majority of the Australian public being against the TPP and with Malcolm Turnbull facing an election soon the reasons for this move to try to ratify the TPP is unknown.
If this trade agreement is accepted it will be the last in a series of detrimental trade agreements where Australia is on the wrong end of the stick. With Australia still reeling from the impact of the terrible China-Australia Free Trade Agreement the move to try to bring in another bad trade agreement may spell the end of the liberal government's long run in parliament.
(Score: 1, Redundant) by frojack on Tuesday November 14 2017, @06:45AM (2 children)
Even after we've seen it, nobody is fully aware of how many under the table codicils Obama had tacked on to that monstrosity. (And no, I'm not forgetting that John Boehner and Paul Ryan were un-indited co-conspirators in that effort.)
While you were fretting about the largely sacrificial "intellectual property/patent sections" who knows what is in 800 pages of crap nobody was allowed to read until the bitter end?
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Tuesday November 14 2017, @02:13PM (1 child)
Was anybody actually allowed to read it? The most I read was that Congressmen had to go into a triple-sealed vault, naked, with no paper, pencil, or Blackberry, to read the text of the treaty. And then afterward they were roofied to ensure they forgot what they had read.
Me, I don't give a shit what they claim was in it, but anything put under those kinds of constraints are nothing a democracy should have anything to do with. I really rather want to subject all the diplomats and authors of that treaty to public pillory for even proposing those constraints.
Even with all the chaos and idiocy of the Trump presidency, he still did a massive good by killing the TPP. It was a greater good than all the last three presidents before him managed, combined. For that reason I would still choose Trump over Hillary, the venal, the corrupt, the apostate.
Washington DC delenda est.
(Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday November 14 2017, @04:15PM
However, I heard that Trump is inserting elements of the TPP into the NAFTA renegotiation [thenation.com]. Don't be fooled by his sneaky bullshit.