US Announces Withdrawal from TPP
TPP was a communications and messaging failure on parts of governments. Other than being a sprawling agreement touching on multiple unrelated topics largely developed in secret, the US government in particular did little to convincingly persuade the populace about TPP&#x27;s advantages. The anti-globalization folks predictably seized on those aspects while a different debate about the expansion of copyrights (i.e. the harmonization of copyright protections with those of the US) was raging in the tech sphere.<p>A gulf began to widen between the administration and those opposing TPP, and quality independent analysis was much more difficult to come by than fearmongering. A few corporations spoke out in favor of TPP [1], but given their vested interest, they made a poor case of swaying average people. Meanwhile, even mainstream news coverage of TPP tended negative. Hillary Clinton notably had modify her messaging on TPP [2] to be seen as a viable candidate, despite endorsing it before.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11893512#11894446" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;news.ycombinator.com&#x2F;item?id=11893512#11894446</a> [2] <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;hillary-clinton-called-trans-pacific-partnership-the-gold-standard&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.snopes.com&#x2F;hillary-clinton-called-trans-pacific-p...</a>