Trans-Pacific Partnership To Facilitate U.S.-China Merger!

• Trans-Pacific Partnership To Facilitate U.S.-China Merger! 
  by Christian Gomez, http://www.thenewamerican.com/ 
  On November 10-12, 2014, world leaders from the 21 member states of the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) gathered together for APEC China 2014, the 26th annual APEC summit, held in Beijing. APEC leaders discussed the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) and agreed to commence work on the Free Trade Area of the Asia Pacific (FTAAP), an even larger free-trade regime that would include not only all 12 of the TPP member states (Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the United States, and Vietnam) but also Communist China and Russia.
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  On the opening day of the summit, Australian Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who supports the TPP, told reporters, “I think that everyone wants to see freer trade in the Asia-Pacific region and my understanding is that once the TPP has been concluded, other countries are welcome to accede to it.” Could one of those “other countries” include Communist China? News reports suggest yes.
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  An October 10, 2014 article published in the Diplomat online reported: “China is open to joining the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a high-ranking Chinese official indicated on Wednesday at a think-tank in Washington, DC.” When asked if China would be interested in joining the TPP, Zhu Guangyao, China’s vice minister of finance and a member of the Communist Party of China since 1987, replied that “China was ‘very open’ to the global economy and plans to continue its decades-long process of ‘reform and opening up’ under Xi Jinping,” according to the Diplomat. In the same article, the Diplomat further reported that “In May 2013, China’s Commerce Ministry indicated that it was looking more seriously at the possibility of China joining the TPP.”
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  Reporting on APEC China 2014, China Daily, the Communist Party of China’s state-run newspaper, stated that China’s goal is to “counter the growing trend of fragmentation in the region that directly undermines economic integration, not the TPP or any other specific freetrade agreement.” So China claims that it is not working to counter the TPP, but rather “the growing trend of fragmentation in the region.” [Emphasis added]. Behind all the Leninist newspeak, “fragmentation” can be understood to mean the independence of nations. China wants greater economic integration for the Asia Pacific region, replacing independence with interdependence.
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