A short thread about The Trans-Pacific Partnership.
The US not joining was a mistake.
The US not joining was a mistake.
https://twitter.com/bauhiniacapital/status/796651134760980480?s=20
Joining the TPP was the POLITICAL not TRADE tool that the US needed to stay most involved. Commitment matters.
Not joining was a mistake.
Not joining was a mistake.
Knowing what people know now, and could plainly see years ago, not joining was a really, really stupid move.
cc @MattSchrader_DC
cc @MattSchrader_DC
The US not joining the TPP, was, in hindsight, probably a really serious error.
Some others may also come to decide that the US decision to not join TPP was... in fact, a huge f-up.
And they practically begged for the US to reconsider. But Trump and Lighthizer who were willing to tank relationships with Canada and Mexico decided to
And they practically begged for the US to reconsider. But Trump and Lighthizer who were willing to tank relationships with Canada and Mexico decided to
https://twitter.com/bauhiniacapital/status/987922955182063616?s=20
add TPP clauses to NAFTA 2.0, then add them to the Japan FTA, but not make out quite as well in either case as they would have *with the same countries* under TPP, where it had VETO power over EVERYthing.
https://twitter.com/bauhiniacapital/status/989351842617352192?s=20
Boneheads gonna bonehead. So they boneheaded.
https://twitter.com/bauhiniacapital/status/932141195748196353?s=20
Again and again
[adds enormous list of screenshots where Bannon, Ross, Lighthizer, and numerous GOP pundits who couldn't find 3 TPP countries not Mexico or Canada on a map were simply wrong]
Nah. Can't be bothered.
[adds enormous list of screenshots where Bannon, Ross, Lighthizer, and numerous GOP pundits who couldn't find 3 TPP countries not Mexico or Canada on a map were simply wrong]
Nah. Can't be bothered.
When the US was "in" TPP, it had influence. In fact, if you read it, the US *controlled* it.
The other Partners GAVE that control to the US because they WANTED the US to have it. It was a gift - the launch of a tribute system via trade.
The US rejected it and lost influence.
The other Partners GAVE that control to the US because they WANTED the US to have it. It was a gift - the launch of a tribute system via trade.
The US rejected it and lost influence.
I think not getting in was stupid. Just monumentally stupid.
https://twitter.com/bauhiniacapital/status/952084224902754304?s=20
Life's tough when you shoot yourself in the foot.
https://twitter.com/bauhiniacapital/status/966128179642449920?s=20
Funny how every single thing Trump, Bannon, Ross, and Lighthizer said about TPP was effectively untrue, false, wrong, mistaken, and strategically stupid. At least Lighthizer wrote purtier than the others. But he was anti-multilateral, but refused to acknowledge the US TPP veto.
Two months ago.
And if we ask in 10yrs, which was the greater geopol mistake - Nixon going to China or US not joining TPP - which do we think TODAY it will be 10yrs from now?
cc @teasri @SMTuffy
And if we ask in 10yrs, which was the greater geopol mistake - Nixon going to China or US not joining TPP - which do we think TODAY it will be 10yrs from now?
cc @teasri @SMTuffy
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