US President Donald Trump did us, the Philippines, a favor by virtually killing what STRATFOR calls “the mega-regional Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP)” that former President Barack Obama had used up most of his first years in office to build. Mr. Trump, on his first business day in office, signed an executive order withdrawing the United States from the TPP.
Without the US in that massive free trade bloc of 12 nations, we Filipinos can continue dealing with it on our own, making decisions clearly beneficial to us and backing away from arrangements that we can correctly or vaguely claim to be against provisions of our Constitution and our interests.
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