U.S. May Scuttle Free Trade Deal And Send Ships To South China Sea

The failure of the TPP may mark the high water mark in this era of globalization. The next step will be an anti-China economic policies designed to cut China's military expansion. Community and identity have supplanted economics in most domestic Western politics. Sovereignty will rise above economics in international relations, as laid out in The Rise of China vs. the Logic of Strategy.

U.S. Military Proposes Challenge to China Sea Claims

The U.S. military is considering using aircraft and Navy ships to directly contest Chinese territorial claims to a chain of rapidly expanding artificial islands, U.S. officials said, in a move that would raise the stakes in a regional showdown over who controls disputed waters in the South China Sea.

Senate Democrats gang up to delay fast-track trade bill

U.S. Senate Democrats delivered a major blow to President Barack Obama's trade agenda on Tuesday, blocking debate on a bill that would have smoothed the path for a Pacific trade pact.

...The failure to garner the necessary votes came after pro-trade Democrats, including Senator Ron Wyden of Oregon, insisted that fast track be bundled together with three other trade bills, including one that would impose import duties on countries that manipulate their currencies for unfair trade advantage.

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