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Showing Original Post only (View all)Time to face facts: Assange played the left like a fiddle on TPP [View all]
TPP nations agree to pursue trade deal without USIn a pushback against the Trump administration's protectionist rhetoric, 11 nations in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal have agreed on Sunday to proceed without the U.S. The 11 nations met on the sidelines of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) meeting for trade ministers in Hanoi and agreed to assess options to bring the deal into force "expeditiously."
"These efforts would address our concern about protectionism, contribute to maintaining open markets, strengthening the rules-based international trading system, increasing world trade, and raising living standards," the group said in a ministerial statement on Sunday. The group said it aimed to complete the assessment before it meets again on the margins of the APEC Economic Leaders' Meeting in mid-November in Vietnam.
TPP had been considered all but dead after U.S. President Donald Trump pulled the U.S. out of the pact, a broad 12-nation trade deal, which he claimed was a "disaster" that would hurt U.S. manufacturing. Although Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had initially said that the TPP would be "meaningless" without the U.S., more recently, Japanese officials had begun to second calls from Australia and New Zealand to proceed without the U.S.
http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/20/tpp-nations-agree-to-pursue-trade-deal-without-us.html
I remember when TPP threads used to dominate GD... Might as well be 50 years ago with all the shit that's happened since then...
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Assange is a Russian troll who has lost all credibiliity and will eventually spend the rest of his
Demsrule86
May 2017
#46
For the US and Russia, there's no perhaps... proven empirically he's scum ... fuck Putin
uponit7771
May 2017
#60
Assange has been editing WikiShit to manipulate people for years- anyone ethical left Wiki years ago
bettyellen
May 2017
#16
Discerning readers check multiple sources instead of relying on folks who have an obvs agenda.
bettyellen
May 2017
#21
A symptom that happens to lazy thinkers who prefer anger and confusion to reality. Education helps..
bettyellen
May 2017
#24
People are wising up to shitty partisan sources... most won't admit it but they won't get away with
bettyellen
May 2017
#32
Assange used Wikileaks good reputation and ruined it. Most thinking individuals saw it while it was
bettyellen
May 2017
#38
What they support was not in the bill...it was taken out...so slave countries could participate...
Demsrule86
May 2017
#79
I'm saddened by what my google search turned up- no easy answers- what are the answers?
bettyellen
May 2017
#84
So the TPP took steps to improve workers rights but it wasn't enough and now there is nothing....
bettyellen
May 2017
#57
there were plans to improve existing human rights issues with stronger steps than last time
bettyellen
May 2017
#76
We already are competing with abused workers worldwide. We use prison labor ourselves!
bettyellen
May 2017
#82
Pulling out of TPP gives China the ability to set the tone and becomes huge dominating force
tammywammy
May 2017
#4
Yeap, Assange was a 30% truth fact 70% bold face ass'd lie type person ... the 30% truth is to ...
uponit7771
May 2017
#6
I think it is quite likely that key leaders in Congress are as tangled up with Russia
pnwmom
May 2017
#69
Pisses the hell out of me. I tried to tell everybody, but nooo, Obama was throwing the workers under
Hekate
May 2017
#22
I have watched high paying jobs move overseas for years...and those who didn't understand that the
Demsrule86
May 2017
#50
Yes, big time. The "secret negotiated" IP chapter was first leaked in May 2012 by Darrel Issa
ucrdem
May 2017
#39
and now Trump and the rest of his shitty fucked up family are making business deals with China
JI7
May 2017
#44
And selling Golden Visas for half a million dollars, monetizing the hell out of the presidency...
Hekate
May 2017
#52