Subject: The American Prospect: Our Incoherent China Policy
From: Clyde Prestowitz <[email-masked]>
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Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2015 11:12:18 -0400

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Clyde Prestowitz
The American Prospect [http://r20.rs6.net/tn.jsp?f=001HhqXEXgKT5pGNlrE10SgeMPvr1olJUcCA_f76mT-YJl4BjU1a5-tJCFoeeFiyJ-4Mliv2RwUYDUyhmiOjQxkV7_9LUm7WUgcqaVTjpvx1yJiNoD-1S3bfmhdLdE6F_EyIRrza2wOSk3Nc7yiiU1wJRH3M7RHHVVoLOE-4CsWoxqL-SjEnrBgbHTIAC5DsLnEqb-hkKT_l8Oie0X5UQ2ZxoAAP4dQO1PPsN-7_a_vKXA=&c=XdPl_2wtIXGqDlJIhe2MGhRuh8x8UYk9IFgYLY__WxqQES9b_P1RXg==&ch=lN17XOkcG7wS-Hyju1u9SRxnf405slSXjmhZc8cq8hvE0oogZz8Y5A==]
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Our Incoherent China Policy:
The proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership is bad economics, and even worse as containment
of China.
By Clyde Prestowitz
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In the summer of 2009, I was invited with a few other policy analysts to the White
House for a briefing on the newly proposed Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP). At that
time, the potential participants included Canada, Mexico, Peru, Chile, New Zealand,
Australia, Singapore, Brunei, Malaysia, Vietnam, and, of course, the United States.
Whether or not Japan would be invited to join had not yet been decided.
Noting that the United States already had free trade agreements with Canada, Mexico,
Peru, Chile, Australia, and Singapore, I asked why we needed an agreement that added
only the tiny economies of New Zealand, Brunei, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The reply
 from a member of the National Security Council staff was that it would reassure
 our Asian allies that America was back; that this agreement would be the economic
complement to the increased military deployments of the recently announced "Pivot
to Asia" foreign policy, obviously aimed at counterbalancing the spread of Chinese
power and influence. Along with health care and a possible treaty on nuclear weapons
with Iran, TPP would be a major part of the president's hoped-for legacy.
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