While China's president Xi was busy dancing on the grave of TPP and rolling out its own regional free-trade alternative during the APEC summit in Peru, Obama was just as busy defending his vanishing legacy to an international audience for the last time. He was even busier projecting his denial before the entire world. As AFP reports, after the APEC summit closed on Sunday, Obama insisted that the 12-nation trans-Pacific deal, a key part of his now failed "pivot" to Asia, was far from dead and those involved still wanted to move forward with the United States.
Actually, no, it's dead, but what is very much alive was Obama's sudden realization that the policies he had been pushing for 8 years have led to a "globallized" world that has never been more splintered and where the wealth trickled-up, crushing the middle class just as the "fringe blogs" warned would happen:
While China's president Xi was busy dancing on the grave of TPP and rolling out its own regional free-trade alternative during the APEC summit in Peru, Obama was just as busy defending his vanishing legacy to an international audience for the last time. He was even busier projecting his denial before the entire world. As AFP reports, after the APEC summit closed on Sunday, Obama insisted that the 12-nation trans-Pacific deal, a key part of his now failed "pivot" to Asia, was far from dead and those involved still wanted to move forward with the United States.
Actually, no, it's dead, but what is very much alive was Obama's sudden realization that the policies he had been pushing for 8 years have led to a "globallized" world that has never been more splintered and where the wealth trickled-up, crushing the middle class just as the "fringe blogs" warned would happen:
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