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applegrove

(118,879 posts)
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 05:51 PM Nov 2020

Asia Forms World's Biggest Trade Bloc

Asia Forms World’s Biggest Trade Bloc

November 15, 2020 at 3:23 pm EST By Taegan Goddard 109 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2020/11/15/asia-forms-worlds-biggest-trade-bloc/

"SNIP...

“Fifteen Asia-Pacific economies formed the world’s largest free trade bloc on Sunday, a China-backed deal that excludes the United States, which had left a rival Asia-Pacific grouping under President Trump,” CNBC reports.

“The signing of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership at a regional summit in Hanoi, is a further blow to the group pushed by former U.S. president Barack Obama, which his successor Trump exited in 2017.”

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Asia Forms World's Biggest Trade Bloc (Original Post) applegrove Nov 2020 OP
So Trump destroyed a way of controlling china with trade. applegrove Nov 2020 #1
Without the USA . .. Iliyah Nov 2020 #2
and we have all these idiots focusing on imaginary antifa Beachnutt Nov 2020 #3
Trump's misguided trade Pantagruel Nov 2020 #4
 

Pantagruel

(2,580 posts)
4. Trump's misguided trade
Sun Nov 15, 2020, 06:01 PM
Nov 2020

policies will put us at strategic disadvantages for at least a decade. China played him like a fiddle.

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