Correction Please!
Aiding China With the TPP
Item: Agence France-Presse (AFP) reported on February 4, 2016, that with the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the United States is seeking to counter China’s “challenge to its supremacy.” Painting a glowing picture of TPP, the article — entitled “Biggest ever trade deal signed as US seeks to counter China” — said:
The biggest trade deal in history was signed Thursday, yoking 12 Pacific rim countries in a US-led initiative aimed at wresting influence from booming China. The ambitious Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) aims to slash tariffs and trade barriers for an enormous 40 percent of the global economy — but pointedly does not include Beijing.
President Obama is quoted in the article as saying, “TPP allows America — and not countries like China — to write the rules of the road in the 21st century,” in an obvious attempt to draw a battle line for economic dominance with China on one side and the U.S. on the other.
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