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by spiralx 3043 days ago
The TPP contained provisions for ensuring worker's rights, including the right to unionise (chapter 19), along with environmental standards (chapter 20) and mechanisms to increase transparency and fight corruption (chapter 26). All of these issues will suffer from the US having ceded their influence to China by abandoning years of painstaking effort - and make the pharmaceutical and tobacco industries, who fought the TPP and lost, very happy.