Hey, maybe we should have passed President Obama's TPP trade deal

[Yavin4]

and then maybe we wouldn't be so economically dependent on China. I could be wrong, but just a thought.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), also called the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, was a proposed trade agreement between Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, Vietnam, and the United States signed on 4 February 2016, which was not ratified as required and did not come into effect. After the newly elected US president Donald Trump withdrew the US signature from TPP in January 2017,[5] the agreement could not enter into force.

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Many observers have argued the trade deal would have served a geopolitical purpose, namely to reduce the signatories' dependence on Chinese trade and bring the signatories closer to the United States.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership

The Death of TPP: The Best Thing That Ever Happened to China
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/the-death-tpp-the-best-thing-ever-happened-china-19232?nopaging=1

[msongs]

1. or people can just stop buy china made stuff. nt

[Yavin4]

2. Kinda of hard to do when they manufacture critical products

like Pharmaceuticals, key components for other products, etc. That was the whole point of the TPP, expand trade throughout the Pacific region.

[TreasonousBastard]

3. I've worked in international trade over half my working life, and...

I cheered the TPP.

The entire purpose of it was to reduce Chinese influence in world trade, and offer balance.

[MichMan]

4. Which one of the 2016 candidates supported TPP?