11-24-2016, 11:38 PM
I did read someplace (?) that China has already said they wanted to start their own trade pack for the region. Some of the TPP was used as a political carrot to get the Pacific nations onboard for the "swing to the Pacific" the USA has said they were going to do.. Let us have bases there and we give you some great trade deals...that kinda tit for tat deal. Many had already refused the whole base thing anyway... Just my uninformed opinion so take it for what it is worth...