Bernie Sanders’ still-impassioned campaign electrified debate over a draft of the Democratic Party’s policy positions Saturday, winning concessions on climate change but failing to include opposition to the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal.
The United States and Vietnam are rapidly building a partnership based on trade and security agreements. President Obama visited Vietnam on his way to the G7 meeting in Japan. During the visit, Obama lifted a ban on the sale of weapons to the country of 90 million and Vietnam will welcome US Peace Corps volunteers who teach English. Vietnam values the relationship more for trade than security purposes, and China should not worry much about the closer ties. “Vietnam is sensitive to how China might react to Hanoi moving too quickly to deepen security ties with Washington,” concludes Murray Hiebert, a senior fellow and deputy director of the Sumitro Chair for Southeast Asian Studies at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. “Vietnam does not see itself as becoming an ally of the United States, but rather as executing a fine-tuned balancing act between Washington and its giant northern neighbor... Obama’s visit marks yet another delicate dance performed by Vietnam with an eye to its 2,000 years of often-troubled history with China.”
President Barack Obama and the leaders of Southeast Asia called Tuesday for peaceful resolution of the region’s maritime disputes as they concluded a summit in California.
Leading business groups, often at odds with President Barack Obama, are looking to give momentum to one of his top priorities before he leaves office: approval of a trade pact linking 12 nations along the Pacific Rim that make up 40 percent of the world economy.
Indonesia’s leader looked to cement his nation’s growing ties with the United States, declaring after a meeting Monday with President Barack Obama that Southeast Asia’s largest economy intended to join a sweeping U.S.-backed Pacific Rim trade deal.
Over the past two weeks, our government has been laying it on thick, trying to sell Canadians on the Trans-Pacific Partnership: the largest and most secretive agreement in the history of the world.
Although we hear little about it, we should be concerned about pending legislation that could destroy our sovereignty as a free and independent nation.
While huge crowds turned out worldwide, most media outlets outside Malaysia did not cover the rallies calling for reform and the resignation of PM Najib Razak.