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Re:GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for... by meddlepal on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @12:55AM (#15345026)
Wasn't this a big point of the TPP? To even the playing field. Instead we went the other direction.
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Re:GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for... by princeb on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:37AM (#15345170)
short answer: no, China was not a partner to the TPP. long answer: getting a multilateral trade agreement with nearly all of China's trade partners in Asia-Pacific will influence trade standards in China, but not to the extent that China will do anything about this JV requirement.
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Re:GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for... by gok on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @02:14AM (#15345300)
China’s exclusion was in fact a point of TPP. The other members would have had a better shot at being able to enforce rules that China ignores (state aid, intellectual property, etc).
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Re:GM is launching a $5K tiny electric car in China made for... by fragsworth on Wednesday September 27, 2017 @01:38AM (#15345180)
China was not a party in the TPP.
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