The Hidden Agenda Behind the Trans-Pacific Partnership

On the hidden agenda behind the article "U.S. and Japan must seal the deal on the Trans-Pacific Partnership" from The Washington Post - 2014/04/21

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Misstated economic benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partership are usually brought up to conceal strategic geopolitical objectives of Washington's agenda in the Pacific region.

Trumped-up and baseless, purely propagandistic claims that China and Russia - including in light of CIA-backed recent fascisist coup in Kiev that led to secession of Crimea, following the public referendum on the peninsula - pose geopolitical risks have been cited as a lame excuse to expand the NATO alliance's capacity into the Asia-Pacific Region by bringing together 11 so-called would-be members of the TPP.

According to the Washington Post, the Trans-Pacific Partnership has been described as the centerpiece of President Obama’s attempt to “pivot” U.S. foreign policy toward Asia. But for some reason, the geopolitical imperialist encroachment of some of the US long-standing corporations, seeking to strengthen their fascist-like dictatorial monopoly in the region by the use of expanded NATO alliance's military power there, is presented in economic terms.

The bastion of neocon media has stated that TPP is a proposed trade liberalization agreement among 12 nations, proudly adding that the TPP would, in binding the United States more closely with a portion of the world, collectively account for 40 percent of global output. It said, "At the same time, it would ensure that this huge area, including giants such as Japan, Canada, Mexico and Australia, conducts business according to U.S.-style rules on tariffs, regulation and intellectual property. China would be left on the sidelines, along with its mercantilist model of international commerce — unless and until it modifies that approach. The net effect would be a better balance of power, money and ideas between the United States and its allies on the one hand and China on the other".

We will touch on what "US-style rules" really mean in a US-globalized unipolar world, later on.

"To reap these strategic benefits", the article continues, "of course, the United States and the other 11 would-be members of the TPP must first cut a deal. As a practical matter, that means everyone is waiting for a “yes” between Washington and Tokyo, the two biggest economies in the group, and the two with the most divergent approaches, historically, to trade. When Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed last year to pursue a TPP deal, he seemed to be making an historic decision to open his country’s long-closed domestic markets — not only to satisfy long-standing U.S. complaints about Japanese protectionism but also to subject Japan’s stagnant economy to the bracing effects of competition. Lately, however, talks have stalled over age-old issues such as Japan’s high tariffs on U.S. meat and its non-tariff barriers (regulations and such) against U.S. autos."

The pesky economic details of a planned giant  military block of 11 nations that are supposed to project NATO power across the Pacific with China as their primary geopolitical foe in the region sound very pathetic indeed.Ironically enough, lamentations about Congress refusing to give fascist-minded neocons a "carte blanche" in pursuing their geopolitical adventurism games in the economically viable Pacific region, as well as mentioning of geopolitical risks, allegedly posed by war-mongering Russia and China, as an excuse for outdated Cold War mentality toward NATO and military alliance with Japan, give away the true motives of the frantic proponents of the TPP.

"Now, as President Obama embarks on an Asian trip, the highlight of which will be a state visit to Japan, pessimism about the two countries’ ability to reach a TPP deal is growing. Japan alone is not to blame: Congress has failed to grant Mr. Obama “fast-track” authority to speed lawmakers’ approval of a deal once it’s negotiated. That ostensible sign of flagging U.S. interest weakened the U.S. negotiating team’s position and reinforced deep-seated resistance to trade liberalization among Japan’s political interest groups."

What was initially proposed as an economic partneship, notwithstanding the vagueness of pure economic benefits of such a union to other parties involved, finally has taken shape of expanded military block with overlapping responsibilities of its would-be members in the area that has so far been not sufficently aligned geopolitically against China.

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a military step that amounts to an act of war in contemporary world politics. Disguised as an economic alliance, a TPP deal would mean a geopolitical shift in the Pacific region with unpredictable economic consequences for much of the global economy. That is why all the other business-minded parties are not rushing to strike a deal which spells war on Russia and China.

Increasingly disoriented Mr. Obama and chauvinistic Mr. Abe are said to be bent to use the above mentioned state visit "to shore up U.S.-Japan relations and to refocus their respective publics on what’s really at stake." In other words, they are supposed to make use of all of their public relations resources to sell the TPP to the American and the Japanese people.

If pure  economic arguments in favor of this blatant de facto NATO expansion into the Pacific are not enough - because they are nonexistent from other parties' point if view - the scarecrow of neocon-fomented global threat from China and Russia will be raised in a futile attempt to scare the gullible publics.

That is all there is left to the Cold War minded fascist clique of neocon politicians and those of their corporate patrons, who are trying to establish their truly global monopoly with absolute neglect of the interest of the majority of the American people or anybody anywhere else.

They will repeat the old stories of Russian and Chinese threats in the hope that people are just as stupid and uninforned as they used to be. They will use the media to propagate lies and justify their monopolistic policies pursued through fascist dictatorship by means of morally obsolete and unjustifiably expensive geopolitical tools such as North Atlantic Treaty Organization, commonly known as NATO, that had been designed as a means to be used against existential threats to separate nations.

The world has changed dramatically since the end of the Cold War but certain corporate entities that have bought their way into the US government have continued using NATO to build their monopolistic empires effectively turning the US democracy into a quasi-fascist dictatorship, relying on their media for respective propaganda and disinformation and on their tax-payer-funded Armed Forces, suplemented by corporate-owned private military organizations, for punishing those who oppose their dictatorial encroachments at home and quasi-imperialist policies abroad.

Ironically enough, their utterly discredited media outlets have continued to insist that the world "remains fraught with geopolitical risks". "China’s rise is not the only danger — as Russian President Vladi­mir Putin’s seizure of Crimea has shown. Among the best safeguards against these risks are the United States’ traditional alliances such as NATO and the 50-year-old mutual-defense pact that has bound the United States and Japan. The Trans-Pacific Partnership would augment and update that long-standing partnership", said the Washington Post.

Bent to globalize their monopoly both economically and militarily, those fascist-minded neocons in Washington speak of nonexistent "geopolitical risks" where the only true geopolitical threat emanates from the global cartels they represent that use political power to their own narrow interests and desperately cling to such morally and economically obsolete military machines like NATO. Such corporate owners need to be stopped from continuing to use such massive geopolitical instruments for their personal gains.

Because corporate monopolization, fostered through political as well as military means, inevitably leads to propper fascist dictatorship, the eventual loss from such rampant adventurism will be incurred by everybody involved