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If you are the referring to Trump cancelling TPP it was a dumb move that only emboldened China. The TPP was supposed to be the US and 12 smaller Asian nations vs China. TPP was created because of China's unfair trade practices and Trump dismantled it.

No one needs to rewrite his history. The guy was a complete fucking disaster.

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I don’t think I ever heard anything positive about the TPP. NZ hated it because it was being pushed through the government and no one was allowed to read it. When questioned if we could change the Terms or cancel in the future if it turned out bad for us we could not get an answer. No one in nz wanted the TPP.

It’s the only good thing trump did IMO. As a kiwi.

Did you miss the draconian international copyright regime that it would have put into place etc?

Right, that was why the US refused to join the TPP...

I agree, it shouldn't have been in there. But that is only tangential to the reason why Trump pulled the US out of it. He despised China so much that he made sure to strengthen his personal businesses with them while simultaneously weaken the US trade partnership with their rivals.

> He despised China so much that he made sure to strengthen his personal businesses with them while simultaneously weaken the US trade partnership with their rivals.

Would you mind expanding on this? I could only find articles describing a bank account opened in China, that indicate only a little less than $500k business per year. What do you know?

Ivanka Trump won China trademarks days before her father's reversal on ZTE

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/may/28/ivanka-trump...

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