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Not to defend potentially terrible policy (the lack of transparency makes cynicism the only reasonable reaction):

But the elephant in the room with the TPP is China.

Ultimately at a high level East Asia has about as many Chinese as Non-Chinese. This means that a strong economic block uniting non-China East Asia and granting it strong market access actually has a chance of fending off China's economic domination of the region.

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If this is about controlling China, and China obviously knows it, then I don't see any reason for hiding it from the public instead of saying "this all is in order to combat China". Or maybe the means proposed are something that most of us aren't ready to accept in order to guarantee the economic supremacy of the West enterprises?

This is more about military domination of the region and strengthening economies of non-Chinese Asian countries so they can defend themselves from a potentially aggressive China.

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