And I'm telling you like I told you a million times that TPP would be way worse than the current situation for the reasons I stated again and again. I don't care about the details on how the US should move on with China, I'm not a fucking trade expect but I've read enough on TPP to know it's poison. Things aren't optimal but they can get worse, that's the point you keep missing, possibly on purpose. People CAN oppose a law without having the obligation to draft new legislation on the matter you know. Are you done with the "specifics" now or should we continue with this godawful circular argument?
So basically you can offer nothing, like the empty shit and grossly abused terms you rail against every day? And you have no clue about what success looks like, or how trade works, which automatically puts into question your ability to judge failure.
So in your mind a relationship where America subjects itself to the mercantilist operations of China and other pacific governments where they take advantage of our strong legal, environmental, regulatory and business equality standards, with low tariffs, to flood our market, while operating a heavily protectionist internal structure, often with much higher tariffs and underhanded measures, that caused millions of jobs to be lost. That situation in your mind is somehow superior to one that puts those frameworks in place to create equal footing with severe penalties for violations? That would put pressure on China to cede ground in their own negotiations that will continue on with the RCEP? Would give us much better leverage in future bi-lateral trade agreements and keep us as the primary arbiter of trade internationally.
Inaction isn't inaction either. America stepping back from being the global leader on shaping trade just means someone else can fill that void and the most obvious answer is China. Who without an American presence putting stronger pressures in other directions can more easily shape trade around the globe to tract down a path they prefer and advantages them while America sits around playing the chump because of reactionaries like you and Trump that can't even articulate why these policies are worse then the alternatives you seek. Don't have any solutions that are better(or any at all). Just to let the situation as it stands fester, which by all accounts is far worse then what the TPP offered. As flawed as it was.
