{"id":13929,"date":"2015-10-29T06:50:49","date_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:50:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13929"},"modified":"2015-10-29T06:50:49","modified_gmt":"2015-10-29T11:50:49","slug":"global-corporatocracys-unborn-baby-just-got-a-lot-bigger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=13929","title":{"rendered":"Global Corporatocracy\u2019s Unborn Baby Just Got A Lot Bigger"},"content":{"rendered":"

Global Corporatocracy\u2019s Unborn Baby Just Got A Lot Bigger<\/a><\/h3>\n

The Trans-Pacific Partnership\u00a0is not yet fully alive: the agreement has been signed but still needs to be ratified by the governments of its signatory nations. Nonetheless, the corporatocracy\u2019s unborn baby is growing at a startling rate.<\/p>\n

Last week, the agreement boasted a grand total of 12 signatories (the United States, Japan, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, Australia, New Zealand, the Philippines, Brunei, Malaysia and Singapore) with a combined population of 800 million people. This week that number rose to 13 after Indonesia\u2019s President Joko Widodo told U.S. President Barack Obama that the country he represents also wants a piece of the action.<\/p>\n

\u201cIndonesia is an open economy and with a population of 250 million, we are the largest economy in Southeast Asia. Indonesia intends to join the TPP,\u201d Widodo said on Monday after meeting Obama in the White House.<\/p>\n

If Indonesia does sign the agreement, it will bring the combined population of the TPP-bloc to over one billion people, not far off the population of the country the trade agreement was originally devised to encircle and corral \u2014 i.e., China (pop: 1.357 billion). The TPP bloc will also represent over 40% of the global economy.<\/p>\n

Everyone But China?<\/strong><\/p>\n

The basic proposition behind TPP is disarmingly simple: either China joins or it will be isolated.\u00a0This isolation would progress: first from its own back yard through the TPP and the Pentagon\u2019s \u201cAsian Pivot,\u201d then from the West (through the TTIP and TISA), and ultimately from the rest of the global economy.<\/p>\n

Such isolation could be ruinous, not only for China but\u00a0the U.S, too. China and the U.S., when it comes to trade, are joined at the hip. China is the US\u2019s most important trading partner. It has an enormous trade surplus with the US. If anything came in between Chinese exports to the US, China\u2019s economy would collapse (and the US economy would grind to a halt).<\/p>\n

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Global Corporatocracy\u2019s Unborn Baby Just Got A Lot Bigger The Trans-Pacific Partnership\u00a0is not yet fully alive: the agreement has been signed but still needs to be ratified by the governments of its signatory nations. Nonetheless, the corporatocracy\u2019s unborn baby is growing at a startling rate. Last week, the agreement boasted a grand total of 12 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[130,5660,10326,804,805,10327,834,4255],"class_list":["post-13929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-economics","tag-china","tag-don-quijones","tag-global-corporatocracy","tag-tpp","tag-trade","tag-trans-pacific-partnerhsip","tag-us","tag-wolfstreet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13929"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13930,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13929\/revisions\/13930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}