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

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...

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

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