No TPP Please

Keep U.S. Out of the TPP and FTAAP! By JBS, 5/11/18

On April 18, 2018, Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue confirmed the Trump administration's renewed interest in rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in order to counter China. Secretary Perdue told the Senate Appropriations Committee's agriculture subcommittee, "We would welcome that arrangement with joining those other 11 countries. It would be a great unification against China," according to the Washington Examiner. 

NO Mr. Trump and Secretary Perdue: the TPP would NOT be a great unification against China; it would be a unification WITH China!

URGENT: Tell President Trump and Vice President Pence to Keep U.S. Out of the TPP and FTAAP.

Despite not being a part of the current TPP/CPTPP negotiations, China has expressed great interest in joining the TPP. In October 2016, during a televised interview on CNBC's Squawk Box with then-Indiana Governor and Republican Vice Presidential candidate Mike Pence, he admitted China's interest in joining. "When I was in China last year, they were really interested in being a part of TPP. I met with the vice premier over there and he made it very clear they'd like to be a part of that deal," Pence said. 

Instead of being a great unification against China, the TPP is regarded as a "steppingstone" toward creating the larger Pacific Rim-based Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), which in addition to all of the 11 remaining TPP member countries, would also include the United States, Communist China, and Russia.

In 2013, the Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE) published a booklet entitled, Understanding the Trans-Pacific Partnership, coauthored by Jeffrey J. Schott, Barbara Kotschwar, and Julia Muir. On page 3 of this booklet, the authors reveal the TPP's true long-term objectives:

The TPP is regarded as an interim arrangement or stepping stone toward a broader, region-wide Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), possibly within a decade, as envisaged by APEC leaders in Bogor in November 1994 and reaffirmed more recently by them in their meeting in Honolulu in November 2011. TPP negotiators are not only thinking about new countries joining the ongoing talks but also planning and constructing the trade pact with a view toward future linkages with other APEC members, including and especially China. [Emphasis added.]

And following a recent interview of APEC Secretariat Executive Director Alan Bollard with the Japanese-based Nikkei Asian Review about the TPP, the Nikkei reported, "The TPP will pave the way to its broader ambition of creating a free trade zone across the Asia Pacific region, dubbed the FTAAP." 

In fact, this is further confirmed in the preamble of the TPP. On page two of the two-page TPP preamble, the final point reads:

EXPAND their partnership by encouraging the accession of other States or separate customs territories in order to further enhance regional economic integration and create the foundation of a Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific.

To learn more about how the TPP will lead to an economic merger or unification with Communist China, read Christian Gomez's article in The New American entitled, "TPP to Facilitate U.S.-China Merger."  Stop the regional economic integration of the Pacific Rim, including a future unification with Communist China, by NOT rejoining the TPP or entering into an FTAAP.

Recognizing that the TPP is a steppingstone towards the larger FTAAP, contact the president and vice president as requested to below. 

Email or Phone the White House (202-456-1111) and ask President Trump and Vice President Pence to keep the U.S. out of the TPP and also to avoid any future entry into the FTAAP.

Thanks. Your Friends at The John Birch Society

Source: email from JBS.

Norb Leahy, Dunwoody GA Tea Party Leader