@JRHunTx @TomHilly @stephenwertheim My contention is that the TPP was not designed to promote any coherent aims, because they wanted a national security pact but used a 1990s era global trade deal in its stead. It was a camel, a horse designed by committee. Hence why Froman fucked up the auto rules of origin.
@JRHunTx @TomHilly @stephenwertheim The Obama pivot to Asia didn't deliver precisely because Obama and his crew never actually committed to stopping the move of supply chains out of the US and into China. The TPP wouldn't have done it either. It was never designed to.
