If we are interested in concluding the TPP "as a counterweight against China's influence" then why have we simultaneously negotiated a separate agreement with China?And if we are for "an open society" why are we worried about "China's influence"? Opposition to these massive agreements is not "anti trade" as portrayed by politicians and the media but anti corporate power and anti all the other non trade issues packed into the agreements covered over in arcane legalese left to be hashed over by corporate lawyers on behalf of their clients at great expense(to taxpayers) and great recompense(to the lawyers and corporations). If the media could refocus their interest from celebrity and scandal and actually devote some serious time and space to explaining these agreements it is possible that more may support them.