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The renamed TPP, the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership has been signed by 11 countries. https://globalnews.ca/news/4069924/tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-signing-canada/
Thankfully, Trump's withdrawal from the TPP allowed the Canadian people to persuade their government to push for removal of most of the contentious IP obligations that the US demanded, http://www.michaelgeist.ca/2017/11/rethinking-ip-in-the-tpp/. America is considering rejoining, https://www.nytimes.com/2018/02/27/us/politics/mnuchin-tpp-trans-pacific-partnership-trump.html
The Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) will reduce tariffs in countries that together amount to more than 13 per cent of the global economy – a total of $10 trillion. With the United States, it would have represented 40 per cent.
Even without the United States, the deal will span a market of nearly 500 million people, making it one of the globe's three largest trade agreements, according to Chilean and Canadian trade statistics.
[...] Trump has also threatened to dump the North American Free Trade Agreement unless the other two members of the pact, Canada and Mexico, agree to provisions that Trump says would boost U.S. manufacturing and employment. He argues that the 1994 accord has caused the migration of jobs and factories southward to lower-cost Mexico.
[...] The 11 member countries are Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday March 11 2018, @04:54PM
Borders exist because trying to govern an entire planet of people with differing cultures, problems and viewpoints has yet to become practical. We'll probably get their some day when it's practical to travel between any two places on the planet in a couple hours, but we're not there yet.
Just look at how much trouble there is in most of the world with corruption and with local officials doing things that directly contradict what the national leaders are trying to accomplish. Or in places like the US and China where the main security threats are domestic terrorists rather than some foreign state.
Not to mention how hard it's been in the US to pass even moderate gun control regulations like universal background checks even with the overwhelming support of the voters. And yet all the other developed countries have far more regulation on firearms than we do.