Fighting Without Weapons, Trading Without Profit… Shinzo Abe’s visit to the USA

... has not achieved any practical results. While lifting cross-border trade barriers between the 12 member countries, this instrument would at the same time have a decidedly negative impact on the position of individual sectors of the economy both in the USA and in Japan. In addition, it has often been stated that the TPP is primarily geared towards isolating China, and in the longer term that is not economically advantageous to the USA or China. Up to now the Japanese government has been divided over whether Japan needs to join this mega-block, and moreover there ...