with free trade. It was a diplomatic and security agreement designed to hurt China by limiting free trade and specifically by deflecting China's trade to its near neighbours.

Australia runs trade balance in favour of the US

The TPP was a stinker for Australia. Negotiated by Labor and Coalition governments for the best part of a decade, it delivered almost no benefits and came saddled with a dreaded clause that would deliver foreign companies the power to seek compensation for any decision that might harm their business activities.

In effect, foreign commercial interests were to take precedence over the actions of democratically elected governments.

In its original form, the TPP was a bold US play to deliver greater patent rights and protections to American pharmaceutical companies — the kind of changes thatReigning Champ Continues to Win at Meridian Speedway

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