If They Just Called TPP The “F*ck China Deal” Trump Might’ve Been On Board A Long Time Ago…
President Indicates He Might Be Willing To Rejoin The Pact If Doing So Sufficiently Irritates China
We’ve been arguing for more than a year that whatever group of bureaucrats came up with the name “Trans Pacific Partnership” ought to be publicly flogged. Because it’s a terrible description of what the agreement — championed by President Obama, and also many, many Republicans; killed by Trump on his fourth day in office — was all about. Which was limiting China’s growing economic influence over emerging economies in Asia. In other words, f*cking over China.
Nothing we’ve written about in the past year has elicited more viscous attacks than when we’ve supported TPP. Both from the Right and Left. The #1 reason given by far that it gives “even more power to China to take away American jobs”. Which again leads us to believe because of the milquetoast kumbaya name, people had no clue about was in it. Since not including China was the whole point of the TPP.
Anyway, the Washington Post now reports that President Trump has ordered his chief trade negotiator Robert Lightizer, and Chief Economic Adviser Larry Kudlow, to explore rejoining the group, which has continued to exist in a…
