Why Trump is right, and wrong, about killing off the TPP
- Written by Elizabeth Thurbon, Senior Lecturer in International Relations / International Political Economy, UNSW Australia
President-elect Donald Trump is right: The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a damaging deal and deserves to be killed off.
But he tells a half truth about why the trade accord among a dozen Pacific Rim nations is a bad deal. In Trump’s view, trade agreements like NAFTA have allowed developing countries to “steal” American...
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