... 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 ...
... Military Space Program
The question of economic advantage is much more relevant than questions of war and peace. The United States government is strongly committed to the creation of an Asia-Pacific regional trading bloc, the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP). The TPP is much more than a free trade agreement. It also includes highly controversial provisions on the protection of
intellectual property
and the subjugation of national laws to
transnational tribunals
.
Notably absent from negotiations over ...
A choice between American TPP and Chinese FTAAP
2014 APEC Summit revealed strategic aspirations of all major regional players. Countries push and bid on different initiatives of regional free trade integration, thus creating a massive stumbling block – a choice between ...
