TO AMERICANS WHO OPPOSED THE TPP FROM THE LEFT: The 11 other countries are moving forward, but scrapped labor and environmental protections the US got them to include. Once again, you compared reality to imagined perfection rather than probable alternatives.
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Your tweet (and Politico) clearly suggest to readers that labour and environmental standards had been scrapped completely, not just tweaked or weakened.
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I didn't read the Politico article that way, and that's not my position. Zero labor or environmental standards would be ridiculous, and really easy to disprove.
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What likely is happening is that the side agreements US signed with developing countries have been scrapped but the standards included in the core TPP test remain. The side agreements were more specific in what the standards were and how they would be enforced.
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So, new TPP likely weaker on labor and environmental protection than old TPP but those protections are not nonexistent.
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Thanks, that seems plausible.
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