Free Trade: As U.S. demagogues and presidential candidates bluster against the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact as a boon to China, the very same China, in a far colder fury, is sharpening its claws in a bid to kill it. The irony of this disconnect is incredible. About the same time presidential candidate Donald Trump was condemning the just-negotiated 12-nation TPP as "terrible" on Fox News because China might some day be able to join it, the South China Morning Post changed the banner headline on its website to: "It's not checkmate yet: Beijing to counter US-led Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact."...
