This was the great irony & missed opportunity of pulling out of TPP. It's how the U.S. could flex muscles in the Asia Pacific &, w/ allies, confront & contain China, which is a bad actor that should be confronted & contained. =>>https://twitter.com/ChrisCuomo/status/982258548276002818 …
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Replying to @DavidMDrucker
Even with our NATO allies in Europe, we can’t move against Iran, why would the TPP force much weaker Asian countries to do anything? ie. Would vietnam have stopped shrimp sales to China to help the US?
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Replying to @ruslev
and TPP countries don't like being bullied by China either, w/ us in the TPP we would have had influence and they would have felt less at Beijing's whim.
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Replying to @DavidMDrucker
The bigger problem is that Trump is so unpopular internally in our allies, it ties the hands of other governments to do what needs to be done on these big issues.
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Replying to @ruslev
I think this is a very smart & under-appreciated point.
7:36 AM - 6 Apr 2018
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