Japan and Europe counter Trump with colossal trade deal

[Shell_Seas]

Source: Washington Post

Thirty years ago, as Donald Trump gave what is widely considered to be the first campaign speech of his career, he criticized one country above all for cheating the United States in trade: Japan.

On Thursday, Japan took on the mantle of the global rules-based trading system, as it sidestepped a failing trade agreement with the United States to forge a historic new pact with the European Union.

Leaders from Japan and the European Union on Thursday announced their agreement on the broad strokes of a trade deal that will cover nearly 30 percent of the global economy, 10 percent of the world's population and 40 percent of global trade.


Read more: https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/07/06/europe-and-japan-announce-trade-deal-to-rival-nafta/?tid=sm_tw&utm_term=.d7a5101be5d8

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Trump creating jobs all over the world as countries decide to form alliances against us. So much winning.

[DK504]

1. If the corrupt Congress could be bothered

to see what is happening to us aybe they will wake up and kick this asshole out of office and put him and his pals and family in prison.

Despite what a colluding asshole Pence is we can still keep him in a box by retaking the Congress. If and only if we push them into a corner and make it happen.

[Iliyah]

2. The whole GOP party are idiots. . .

[Plucketeer]

3. Replay of the Carrier win

Only many times magnified. He was right in predicting our getting tired of his brand of "winning"!

[Rural_Progressive]

4. See what happens when you give the Japanese Prime Minister

a teenage bully's handshake and then don't offer him any of that best chocolate cake.

So sad.

[Grins]

5. And on the eve of the G-20. Coincidence? I wonder how Fox Business News will spin this?

And the Wall St. Journal.

Breitbart will love it!

[Blue_Tires]

6. Half of DU needs to confess they were played like fucking fiddles

By (including but not limited to): Assange, Greenwald, Snowden, Trump, and legions of useful idiot leftbro pundits and bloggers because NEOLIBERALISM! SECRECY! and GLOBALIZATION! or something... And I took a higher-than-expected level of shit from DUers for daring to point out that Assange clearly had ulterior motives to kill some trade deal that wouldn't even effect him personally, that killing a trade deal on "human rights" issues seemed counter-intuitive since it would just strengthen the positions of Russia and China, AND that the other countries involved were just going to move on without us... Assange especially has to be laughing his goddamn ass off -- TWO colossal con jobs in 2016 which have literally changed the course of history for the worse, and even with no credibility remaining (and despite being an unabashed hero of the far right these days) all he has to do is play his tune and the left dances at his altar of "transparency"

Link to tweet

[betsuni]

8. You were right.

You usually are, that's why I always pay attention to your posts.

[Blue_Tires]

7. So where is the Human Rights/anti-globalization left to go over this deal with a fine-tooth comb?

Where are the protests? Where are the complaints about a lack of transparency?

And yes, I'm totally fucking serious.