“....On trade, Trump avoids specifics. When he discusses it, he starts talking about how the U.S. has trade deficits with some countries, especially China. (Trade deficits are not inherently bad, by the way, but they are often cited to make free trade sound bad to the uninformed.) He then launches into a standard spiel about currency manipulation. These are just convenient rhetorical vehicles for avoiding a serious discussion of the topic - the politician’s equivalent of what you said in class when you hadn’t read your assignment the night before....
Most importantly, if the U.S. fails to make some kind of agreement like the TPP, China will move into the same zone and dictate trade on its own terms instead. This would be a true disaster for U.S. diplomacy. It would signify that the U.S. has lost influence and prestige in every corner of the world under Obama, instead of just in most of the world.....”
Sounds like something John Kerry would say. It's pretty obvious that most of US diplomacy was sold to the highest bidder starting with Carter and Clinton. It is not fixable with trade deals that give more power to foreigners. It is not fixable period. Trump on the other hand would bypass "US diplomacy" and spell out terms to our adversaries like China.
As Trump plans, we should negotiate with these countries one by one. Then, if you have an issue, you can deal with it expeditiously—without the interference of an unaccountable bureaucratic monstrosity—and without ceding our sovereignty as a free constitutional republic.
The TPP is just another NWO stratagem to crush us.