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<header class="entry-header" style="box-sizing: border-box; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); font-family: Lato, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;">[h=1]In Rebuke Of Obama, Trump Pulls America Out Of Trans-Pacific Partnership[/h]<time class="entry-time" itemprop="datePublished" datetime="2017-01-22T11:54:57+00:00" style="box-sizing: border-box; display: inline-block;">January 22, 2017</time> By
Robert Gehl 1 Comment
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We’re done.
The press in Asia are reporting that newly-inaugurated President Donald Trump has moved quickly to put his policy of “America First” into action by withdrawing from the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
By pulling out of the trade deal – Barack Obama’s signature trade program – Trump marked a quick and significant shift away from globalism.
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</center>It should come as no surprise. Trump had promised to withdraw from the TPP many times on the campaign trail. In his blistering inauguration address, Trump said that the era of America being exploited by foreign countries through unfair trade dals was over. Also over was the world’s reliance on a free ride from the United States.
“For many decades, we’ve enriched foreign industry at the expense of American industry; subsidized the armies of other countries, while allowing for the very sad depletion of our military,” he said.
“One by one, the factories shuttered and left our shores, with not even a thought about the millions and millions of American workers that were left behind.”
World capitals are in shock. The leaders of Japan and Great Britain will meet with President Trump in the coming weeks. Japan is particularly nervous about America’s new stance.
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</center>The Straits Times of Singapore reports that while Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Saturday reiterated the importance of US-Japan ties, Masahiko Komura, vice-president of Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party, was quoted in the Mainichi Shimbun as saying: “If each country begins focusing only on itself, the economic state of the world – including the US – will be disastrous.”
Trump has repeatedly said that he is not against free trade, as long as it is fair trade. Deals that send companies and jobs offshore are not in this nation’s best interest and will not be approved by this President.
China responded that “cooperation also demands reciprocal flexibility instead of a beggar-thy-neighbor mentality.”
In Germany, Chancellor Angela Merkel yesterday acknowledged that there were differences of opinion but said that she would work to arrive at compromises with Trump on issues like trade and military spending.