tpp

Trump's withdrawal from the Trans-Pacific Partnership has eliminated incentives for the Vietnamese government to improve social and political conditions. https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2018/world/how-a-trump-decision-on-trade-became-a-setback-for-democracy-in-vietnam/?noredirect=on...

Trump Is China’s Chump But the TPP would have been a disaster for the US! Why is Trump being being castigated for getting rid of this abomination?

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38721056 Sad, very sad.

I guess this is an issue that divides Democrats. Obama is for it, but Elizabeth Warren is against it (more broadly, businesses seem to mainly be for it, with some exceptions, while labor and environmental groups are against it). Me, I'm generally in favor of freer trade and lower barriers to...

I've heard several things about the TPP. It supposedly corrodes internet freedoms, enables large businesses to wage legal battles against countries that refuse to sale their products, and strips a number of "critical rights". I say "critical rights", but I haven't found very much on the TPP yet...