re: #95 Colère Tueur de Lapin

That’s so cute. No, really, does he think that the pumkin pinochet can broker a deal like that bilaterally with Japan? What’s the incentive for Japan? Maybe I’m just naive.

I thought it was worked out among various nations as a way to a U.S.-centered counterweight to China. How would that work if we negotiate individually with each country? Do you suppose China might have been against it?

But I was frustrated with Hillary for flip-flopping on the deal as she was forced on the issue by Bernie; and I was frustrated with Obama for not selling it in more simple terms. Maybe because the narrative that NAFTA alone was responsible for the hollowing out of the midwestern industrial base made any hint of support for TPP poisonous? I don’t know. Also, I’ve never known how true the allegation that the TPP would allow multinationals to hold governments hostage in court cases. I just wish there had been better discussion of it.