I covered all the original countries to the TPP. They are Brunei, Chile, New Zealand and Singapore. Vietnam is probably the one country that would benefit most. It is easy to see why Vietnam would receive the greatest change in circumstances. There is also merit for the USA to have a trade relationship with Vietnam. The USA has many Vietnamese now living in the country. But, we also did a great deal of damage to the country.
Vietnam is a communist country so it actually fits in well with it's neighborhood. Other than the standard water rights issues of most of the countries of that region, there is no reason why Vietnam could not benefit from a stronger trade relationship with China and Russia. The smaller countries in Southeast Asia are struggling. The sooner they iron out their economic problems the populous will benefit from a better quality of life.
The USA's CDC does have a presence in Vietnam.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (click here) has partnered with the government of Vietnam (GVN) and local and international organizations since 1998 to build quality sustainable health systems, providing long-term public health impact and protecting the health of Vietnamese and Americans at home and abroad. With support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the CDC Influenza Division, CDC delivers evidence-based technical expertise that strengthens the capacity and infrastructure of the national health systems in Vietnam, providing life-saving care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS and preventing the spread of infectious diseases, such as influenza and other potential health threats.
There are other countries in the TPP agreement I did not cover and they include Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Mexico, Japan and the two most recent announced interests Taiwan and South Korea. But, I think most can discern their own facts from the model I used here.
As far as the Climate Crisis, the larger industrial nations have the burden to end their carbon emissions. A country life Brunei should take example of other petroleum economies and make adjustments. There is no reason for that country to simply have a larger carbon footprint out of laziness. Then there are countries like Vietnam that could benefit from alternative energy sources as they develop their economy. It is better to make that investment early in the economic development process.
Most of the countries of the TPP are already established as trading partners to the USA, so in a way this agreement isn't so an insult to the USA economy so much as a rewrite and renewal of relations.
New Zealand is as opposed to the TPP as the USA has become.
This puts into perspective the reason the administration has not come forward with specifics on the TPP.
April 1, 2015
...Two weeks ago an international arbitration (click here) panel awarded a US company compensation for the way its quarry project in Canada was "unfairly" rejected on environmental and planning grounds.
This has only added to the increasingly fervid debate in the US and now Canada over aspects of the TPP which is crucial to the US pivot to Asia and also an important step towards a broad-based freer trade zone in the Asia-Pacific region.
The debate is mainly led by union-influenced Democrats in the US Congress who are reluctant to give Barack Obama the trade promotion authority to cut a TPP deal that the other 11 member countries want to see before they accept the US negotiating demands.
But the arbitration decision has drawn attention to one of the many complex aspects of the TPP – foreign investor protection – just as WikiLeaks has also sparked new fears with the leaked draft investment chapter....
In order for the President to know the actual acceptance of his negotiating demands the US Congress has to provide him the authority to conduct the agreement. So, in actuality there is no agreement and there are absolutely no specifics yet.
But, there is one thing I am sure of though. I am tired of the USA always running a negative trade balance. I always feel as though the USA is the great economic dumping ground of the world. Americans can't compete with foreign labor so they are forced to accept inferior quality at poverty prices. That has got to stop. The USA has to return to it's most moral content where each generation does better than the one before it.
Vietnam is a communist country so it actually fits in well with it's neighborhood. Other than the standard water rights issues of most of the countries of that region, there is no reason why Vietnam could not benefit from a stronger trade relationship with China and Russia. The smaller countries in Southeast Asia are struggling. The sooner they iron out their economic problems the populous will benefit from a better quality of life.
The USA's CDC does have a presence in Vietnam.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) (click here) has partnered with the government of Vietnam (GVN) and local and international organizations since 1998 to build quality sustainable health systems, providing long-term public health impact and protecting the health of Vietnamese and Americans at home and abroad. With support from the U.S. President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief and the CDC Influenza Division, CDC delivers evidence-based technical expertise that strengthens the capacity and infrastructure of the national health systems in Vietnam, providing life-saving care and treatment for people living with HIV/AIDS and preventing the spread of infectious diseases, such as influenza and other potential health threats.
There are other countries in the TPP agreement I did not cover and they include Australia, Peru, Malaysia, Mexico, Japan and the two most recent announced interests Taiwan and South Korea. But, I think most can discern their own facts from the model I used here.
As far as the Climate Crisis, the larger industrial nations have the burden to end their carbon emissions. A country life Brunei should take example of other petroleum economies and make adjustments. There is no reason for that country to simply have a larger carbon footprint out of laziness. Then there are countries like Vietnam that could benefit from alternative energy sources as they develop their economy. It is better to make that investment early in the economic development process.
Most of the countries of the TPP are already established as trading partners to the USA, so in a way this agreement isn't so an insult to the USA economy so much as a rewrite and renewal of relations.
New Zealand is as opposed to the TPP as the USA has become.
This puts into perspective the reason the administration has not come forward with specifics on the TPP.
April 1, 2015
...Two weeks ago an international arbitration (click here) panel awarded a US company compensation for the way its quarry project in Canada was "unfairly" rejected on environmental and planning grounds.
This has only added to the increasingly fervid debate in the US and now Canada over aspects of the TPP which is crucial to the US pivot to Asia and also an important step towards a broad-based freer trade zone in the Asia-Pacific region.
The debate is mainly led by union-influenced Democrats in the US Congress who are reluctant to give Barack Obama the trade promotion authority to cut a TPP deal that the other 11 member countries want to see before they accept the US negotiating demands.
But the arbitration decision has drawn attention to one of the many complex aspects of the TPP – foreign investor protection – just as WikiLeaks has also sparked new fears with the leaked draft investment chapter....
In order for the President to know the actual acceptance of his negotiating demands the US Congress has to provide him the authority to conduct the agreement. So, in actuality there is no agreement and there are absolutely no specifics yet.
But, there is one thing I am sure of though. I am tired of the USA always running a negative trade balance. I always feel as though the USA is the great economic dumping ground of the world. Americans can't compete with foreign labor so they are forced to accept inferior quality at poverty prices. That has got to stop. The USA has to return to it's most moral content where each generation does better than the one before it.
