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发帖数: 38600 | 1 Why the TPP Deal Won’t Improve Our Security
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/opinion/why-the-tpp-deal-wont-improve-our-security.html
A key reason is that Washington no longer has a great deal to offer. In the
days of Pax Americana, America could use trade deals to buy allies and
geopolitical influence. Offering free and largely nonreciprocal access to
the huge American market, coverage under the American defense umbrella and
American foreign direct investment — along with transfer of production and
technology by major American companies — all in return for geopolitical
cooperation was a great deal.
Clyde Prestowitz, the founder and president of the Economic Strategy
Institute, served in the Commerce Department under President Ronald Reagan
and was vice chairman of President Bill Clinton’s Commission on Trade and
Investment in the Asia Pacific Region. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 2 In comparison to this, China is now by several important measures the world
’s largest economy, with about $4 trillion of reserves that it is investing
in global infrastructure like the One Belt, One Road project, a multidecade
, multitrillion-dollar effort to better connect China with markets in the
Middle East, Europe and other parts of Asia. It is now the biggest foreign
investor in most of the developing countries of Latin America, Africa and
the Middle East. It is also the biggest foreign investor in Australia and
much of Europe.
In other words, the administration is absolutely right that America needs
tools to counter China’s growing influence in Asia and around the world.
But until America can come close to matching China’s dynamism, it has no
hope of countering its economic and geopolitical influence with old-
fashioned trade agreements, no matter how monumental they are said to be. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 3 The Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad for America and is mostly about
anything but trade. | b********n
发帖数: 38600 | 4 China is way too big to be ignored or even isolated these days by anyone in
the region, especially not the US as China is still one of the largest debt
holders of US foreign debt.
There is only one way for the US get out of this situation and that is to
become better than its competition.
Those days are gone. |
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