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Stefan Bauschard TPA Politics

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U – TPA Pass Now

Senate acting on TPA, momentum behind it

Wall Street Journal, 4-2-> ?Trade Poison Pill>@htt#;;www.ws.com;articles;tradeoisonill-42,",)* D(A# 42--On Wednesday the Senate Finance Committee plans to begin marking up Trade Promotion Authority

(TPA) legislation, also known as fast-track, that is necessary for the Administration to complete trade

accords with the European Union and 11 Pacific Rim countries. The bill outlines U.S. negotiating

objectives on trade agreements and guarantees an up-or-down vote without amendments. Nearly every

President since Franklin Roosevelt has had this power. The bill had been moving well since Finance

Chairman Orrin Hatch and ranking Democrat Ron Wyden agreed last week on compromise language

that the Obama Administration also supports. The compromise includes language directing the

Administration to ensure that foreign partners “avoid manipulating exchange rates” via “cooperative

mechanisms, enforceable rules, reporting, monitoring, transparency, or other means, as appropriate.”

!nough "otes

5ric #arcia, 4-2--> htt#;;www.nationalournal.com;congress;somesenatedemocratsloo!readto%uc!harrreidontrade2-42- ?Some SenateDemocrats 0oo! $ead to Buc! arr $eid on Trade>@ D(A# 42--

"I would have liked to see more witnesses, but I'm glad we had at least two," Schumer said on Tuesday, in

reference to AFL-CIO President Richard Trumka and U.S. Chamber of Commerce President and CEO Tom

Donohue. Donohue was optimistic that there would be enough votes in the committee for Trade

Promotion Authority, though he wouldn't get into specifics. "I leave the counting of votes to my

colleagues; just let me simply say we'll get enough," Donohue told National Journal.

Their non-uni$ueness bum%s don&t %ro"e it won&t %ass

'usiness (e%ort, 4-22--> htt#;;www.iol.co.Ca;%usiness;international;carriceimortsimassestallsaanustradedeal-.-*4*.ETe1 rice imorts imasse stalls Gaan> US trade deal D(A# 422-

The US Senate Committee on Finance introduced a bipartisan bill last week in Washington that could

have sped passage of TPP-related trade legislation in Congress. The legislation would let the White

House send Congress trade pacts for votes without amendment, known as trade promotion authority. It also

would give Congress the right to revoke the so-called fast-track process if enough lawmakers find the

president ignored negotiating goals. “Fortunately, the US Congress does seem to be working on getting

that trade promotion authority, and if that goes through then this will be a lot easier to do,” saidRobert Feldman, chief economist at Morgan Stanley MUFG Securities in Tokyo. “There is always a great

deal of brinkmanship involved in these negotiations, so the fact that things are reported to have

gotten a little bumpy at a very, very late stage doesn’t surprise me a bit.”

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U – )emocrats

!nough su%%ort o* )emocrats to %ass now

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Senate 7inorit 0eader arr $eidHs statement Tuesda that he is a Ihell noIon legislation that would gi9e the 'hite ouse more le9erage to negotiatetrade deals is reJecti9e of man Democrats on the Senate another ossi%le Democratic TPA suorter> said the TPAshould %e accomanied % Trade Adustment Assistance> which hels wor!erswho are dislaced as a result of foreign trade deals> a natural concern forman Democrats who worr a%out lost o%s in trade agreements.ILouH9e got to ha9e TAA to go with trade>I +antwell told National Gournal. I/Hm asuorter of TPA> %ut listen> the notion that !ind of rumled u around in the last coule of das that TAAmight not get done is a 9er %ad message. LouH9e got to ta!e care of the wor!force.ISome rogressi9es are concerned that the TPP will reeat what the felt were mista!es of re9ious freetrade deals li!e the North American howe9er> 'arner said> I0etHs loo! at TPP as we get details.I

The 1bama administration is adamant about %ushing )emocrats on the/ill on what could ossi%l %e one of its few accomlishments in its secondterm. /n an inter9iew with 7SNB+ thatHs airing Tuesda> President (%amacame out strongl against Sen. 5liCa%eth 'arren> who is not on the saing she was IwrongI on trade> further re9ealing the ga

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%etween the 'hite ouse and the 7assachusetts Democrat. 7em%ers of theadministration> li!e U.S. Trade $eresentati9e 7ichael ha9e met with Democratic mem%ers of the ouserecentl to lo%% them on the deal.Still> man Democratic senators side with $eid> saing the ha9ereser9ations.

I/ still ha9e concerns> of course. 'e ha9e to go through an amendmentrocess and hoefull weHll see what that can roduce>I Sen. $o%ert7enendeC said ahead of the hearing on Tuesda> adding that he has a wholehost of amendments heHs read to o=er.Sen. +huc! Schumer> who has re9iousl criticiCed the committeeHs rocesson TPA> said he still has reser9ations.

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U – To% o* the )oc+et

TPA "ote in late A%ril

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The *ast-trac+ bill> introduced last wee! % Sens. (rrin atch 8$Utah: and$on 'den 8D(re.:> is scheduled *or a mar+u% on Wednesda inad"ance o* a *ull oor "ote as earl as late A%ril. The ouse 'as and7eans +ommittee> where +hairman Paul $an 8$'is.: is a fasttrac!chamion> will re9iew legislation on 'ednesda ahead of an eectedmar!u on Thursda.

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+ommittees in %oth the Senate and lower ouse of $eresentati9es are dueto consider the fasttrac! %ill again on 'ednesda and Thursda> setting u9otes in %oth houses of +ongress % earl 7a.

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U – A2 (e%ublicans )on&t Want to Su%%ort1bama&s Power

5onser"ati"e o%%osition has not materiali6ed

Daniel Newhauser, 4-2-> National Gournal> ?Trade Deal 6i9es (%ama>6(P 0eaders a Eote+ounting Test>@htt#;;www.nationalournal.com;congress;tradedealgi9eso%amagoleadersa9otecountingtest2-42- D(A 42--

+onser9ati9es> meanwhile> are war of gi9ing (%ama more unilateral ower>eseciall as the %attle eecuti9e actions on immigration and health care inthe courts. But ouse aides are encouraged that widesread conser9ati9eoosition from outside grous has not materialiCed> and inJuential 9oices onthe right> such as Sen. Ted +ruC> ha9e lined u in suort of the freetrade

agenda.

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U – 1bama Pushing

1bama rounding u% "otes now

Angela 6reiling> 42--> Bellingham erald> ?US> Gaan +lose to comletingtal!s on TransaciKc deal>@htt#;;www.%ellinghamherald.com;2-;4;2-;4232);usaanclosetocomletingtal!s.html D(A 42--

The inter"iew was %art o* a wee+s-long administration e7ort to get5ongress to grant 1bama trade %romotion authorit> !nown as fasttrac!. That would allow U.S. trade ocials to negotiate a deal and ha9elawma!ers gi9e it a esorno 9ote without ma!ing changes. Theadministration and U.S. trade artners consider it crucial to an accord.

The administration is suorting a %ill granting the authorit that wasnegotiated % Sen. (rrin atch of Utah> the $eu%lican chairman of the and Sen. $on 'den of(regon> the anelHs to Democrat.(e%ublicans> who generall ha"e bac+ed *ree-trade accords, are%ressuring 1bama to get more )emocrats behind %assage o* the/atch-Wden legislation,89* he wants to get this %assed, hes going to ha"e to weigh in muchmore hea"il,8 Sen. Gohn Barrasso> $'o.> said in an inter9iew.(e%ublicans want 8robust su%%ort *rom both sides8 on the bill > hesaid./atch, as+ed whether the administration was rounding u% enoughsu%%ort, said, 8:ran+l, there doing better than 9 thought.I

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U – P5

1bama in"esting ca%ital in trade agreements

$o%ert 1utner> 42-> American Prosect> ?(%ama&s Trade Agreements area 6ift to +ororations>@ htts#;;rosect.org;article;o%amastradeagreementsaregiftcororations D(A# 422-

To get so-called fast-track treatment for these deals, the administration needs special trade promotion

authority from Congress. But Obama faces serious opposition in his own party, and he will need lots of

Republican votes. He has to hope that Republicans are more eager to help their corporate allies than to

embarrass this president by voting down one of his top priorities. But the real intriguing question is why

Obama invests so much political capital in promoting agreements like these. They do little for the

American economy, and even less for its workers.

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U – TPP – A2 TPP Won&t 'e Agreed 1n

US and Ja%an 0nali6ing TPP deal now, TPP +e

7ar! Swire> 422-> ?Gaan> US 7a!e Progress in TPP Tal!s>@ Ta News>htt#;;www.tanews.com;news;GaanOUSO7a!eOProgressO/nOTPPOTal!sOOOO")*)3.html D(A#422-

After another recent round of intense negotiations, Japan's Economic Minister Akira Amari and US Trade

Representative Michael Froman were said to have made significant progress towards a Trans-Pacific

Partnership (TPP) agreement between the two countries, but that more effort will be necessary. Prior to the

meetings, in an interview with The Wall Street Journal, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe had expressed

the hope that an agreement could be found before or during his visit to Washington on April 28 but warned

that, while a bilateral deal is "close," the "last hurdle" could be the most difficult. The TPP discussions

between Amari and Froman again concentrated on market access for Japan into the US automobile sector,

and for the US in the Japanese agricultural market. However, although the gap between the two sides

appears to have narrowed, they ended without a definitive agreement.

US and Ja%an close on TPP

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'AS/N6T(N VV President Barac! 1bama and Gaanese Prime 7inister

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/n an inter9iew with 7SNB+> (%ama said he wouldnHt %e negotiating theaccord if that were the case and ointed to his record in oce as e9idence hewas focused on ma!ing sure ordinar Americans were Igetting a fair deal.II'hen ou hear fol!s ma!e a lot of suggestions a%out how %ad this tradedeal is> when ou dig into the facts> the are wrong>I (%ama said.

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9= – )emocrats >e

)emocrat su%%ort critical to TPA

$eid Wilson, 4-22-> 'ashington Post> $eid 'ilson co9ers national oliticsand +ongress for The 'ashington Post. e is the author of $ead /n> The Post&smorning ti sheet on olitics>htt#;;www.washingtonost.com;olitics;o%amasKghtfortradeauthoritfacesradicallalteredoliticallandscae;2-;4;22;a3)*a,e*e*--e4aae-d"42)-)d*afaOstor.html D(A# 422-Twenty-two years ago, 102 House Democrats joined 132 Republicans to ratify the North American Free

Trade Agreement. Today, supporters of a new trade measure are on the hunt for votes to give President

Obama more authority to negotiate multilateral trade deals, but shifting party politics and an evolving

congressional map will make their task much tougher than it was two decades ago. The Senate Finance

Committee will began debate Wednesday on the measure, known as Trade Promotion Authority, and while

most observers believe it will pass the Senate, the vote count in the House is much tighter -- and no

one believes anywhere near 102 Democrats will support the new deal. Most of the votes in favor of TPA

will come from the Republican side of the aisle, where House Ways and Means Committee Chairman

Paul Ryan (R-Wis.) is leading the campaign. But a significant number of more conservative

Republicans have voiced opposition to any deal that appears to give Obama, their political arch-nemesis,

any more power. “There’s a trust issue with the executive,” said Rep. Tom Emmer (R-Minn.), who

circulated a letter among House Republican freshmen in support of the trade deal. “The response that I

would generally hear [among Republicans] was, ‘Hey, I don’t want to give this president, this

administration, any more authority.” That means supporters will need at least some Democratic votes to

pass the measure. But opposition from labor unions, who remain powerful in heavily Democratic districts,

has convinced most Democrats to publicly oppose fast-track authority. In the last Congress, 127 Democrats

signed a letter opposing TPA in a campaign spearheaded by Rep. Rosa DeLauro (D-Conn.), and another

nine newly elected members signed a similar letter circulated by Rep. Ruben Gallego (D-Ariz.) this year.

That leaves only 51 Democrats who have not publicly stated their position. And few of them are willing to

publicly offer their support. The White House is largely whipping up support for its own bill, alongwith Sen. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), the bill’s lead Democratic sponsor in the Senate. “What we will do and

what we have been doing is working closely -- primarily through Democrats but also in conversations

with Republicans -- to encourage some bipartisan agreement around TPA legislation,” White House

press secretary Josh Earnest said Monday. Cabinet officials including Secretary of Labor Tom Perez,

Commerce Secretary Penny Pritzker, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Treasury Secretary Jack Lew,

have begun making calls to Democrats. Observers say the path to a trade deal is significantly more difficult

than it was in 1993, when NAFTA passed by a 234-200 margin. That’s because the Democratic caucus

looks significantly different today than it did then: Of the Democratic votes for NAFTA, 72 came from

members who represent Southern and border states. About half those seats, almost entirely in the South, are

now held by Republicans. Without those votes, NAFTA would have failed. “The Republican gerrymander

has eliminated a bunch of pro-fast-track Democrats,” said former congressman Martin Frost, a Texas

Democrat who voted for NAFTA, then lost his House seat after a mid-decade redistricting. As for theremaining Democrats, he added: “Labor is still a significant force in a number of Democratic districts. I

think very few Democrats will cross labor on this issue.” The Democratic president who spearheaded the

NAFTA campaign, Bill Clinton, had advantages that Obama does not. Clinton’s whip team, led at the time

by Rahm Emanuel, then White House political director, could trade earmarks to secure votes. Obama has

no such leverage. Even then, recalls William Galston, a former top domestic policy adviser to Clinton and

now a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, the battle to pass NAFTA was a “three-month, all-hands-

on-deck struggle.” But there is a path: Among the 51 Democrats who have not publicly rejected TPA,

37 come from districts where manufacturing jobs represent a smaller percentage than the national

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average, making them potentially less susceptible to pressure from labor. In an average Congressional

district, manufacturing jobs make up 10.6 percent of all positions; 22 Democrats currently represent

districts where manufacturing accounts for fewer than 8 percent of jobs. Where Democratic votes for trade

once came from the South and border states, Frost said TPA’s success or failure will rest with members

from the West Coast, whose states benefit the most from trade with Pacific nations. Of those members who

haven’t said they oppose TPA, 17 are from Washington, Oregon and California. Galston said the new

realities of campaign politics could change the Democratic calculus. As Democrats pull more supportfrom highly-educated and racially-diverse populations, trade deals may no longer be the third rail

they once were. “This new Democratic Party, made up of a lot of people who are interested in social

issues, is not as four-square against trade agreements,” he said. Conversely, Republicans are performing

better among white working-class voters, giving them control of many more districts where manufacturing

makes up a disproportionate number of jobs. One hundred thirty-seven Republicans represent districts with

higher-than-average numbers of manufacturing positions; in 57 of those districts, manufacturing makes up

more than 15 percent of all jobs. The white working-class voters who hold those jobs are much more likely

to feel the economic recovery has left them behind, fueling some of the opposition to a trade deal. In a

January Washington Post-ABC News poll, 39 percent of Americans said the country was headed in the

right direction; among whites without a college degree, that number was just 22 percent. “When you hear

‘fast track’ coming from Washington, the first thing you think is, ‘These guys are pulling a fast one,’” said

Emmer, the Minnesota Republican who backs TPA. Despite the shifting political alliances that complicate

the debate over trade, the parallels between NAFTA 22 years ago and TPA today show angst over trade

deals remains deep among voters -- and politicians -- in both parties. “The sense of vulnerability that parts

of the economy, and therefore parts of the parties, are experiencing are more of a constant than a variable,”

Galston said.

(e%ublicans su%%ort TPA, 1bama must %ersuade)emocrats

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Lawmakers are debating whether to grant Mr. Obama trade promotion authority, which would requireCongress to vote up or down on the agreement without being able amending it. Republicans are generally

in favor of the move, but the president faces a tougher sales job with his own party, with Democrats’

labor allies opposed to a free-trade deal. Mrs. Warren, for example, who has been pushing Democratic

presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton to embrace “middle-class” economic policies, has charged

that the TPP will only help the “rich get richer.”

1bama lobbing )emocrats

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Obama is currently working on the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership with Asian nations, and aseparate trade deal with European countries. The president and his aides are also lobbing *or

)emocratic congressional votes in favor of Trade Promotion Authority. The bill would

enable the administration to put together a final agreement for an up-or-down vote in Congress with no

amendments. Some lawmakers want labor and environmental standards in trade deals. Obama said those

would be included in what he sends to Congress. "Everything I do has been focused on how do we make

sure the middle class is getting a fair deal," Obama said on MSNBC.

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9= – (e%ublicans >e

(e%ublicans +e to TPA

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To get so-called fast-track treatment for these deals, the administration needs special trade promotion

authority from Congress. But Obama faces serious opposition in his own party, and he will need lots of

Republican votes. He has to hope that Republicans are more eager to help their corporate allies than to

embarrass this president by voting down one of his top priorities. But the real intriguing question is why

Obama invests so much political capital in promoting agreements like these. They do little for the

American economy, and even less for its workers.

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TPP 9nternal – Perce%tion

Perce%tion o* loss o* "otes *or TPA means no internal lin+

Adam Behsudi, 4-2-> Politico> ?Trade rum%le# Democrats stuc! %etween'arren> (%ama>@ htt#;;www.olitico.com;stor;2-;4;demsstuc!%etweenwarreno%amaintraderum%le--)2--.htmlMhrc-O4 D(A# 42--

Trade romotion authorit legislation would gi9e the resident the ower tocomlete trade deals with onl uordown 9otes from +ongress and is seenas integral to %oth reaching a %ilateral agreement with Gaan and %ringinghome the -2nation TPP agreement W the largest trade deal in U.S. histor.But an indication that the fasttrac! %ill doesn&t ha9e enough 9otes could deala %low to the negotiations.

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TPA 9m%act -- !conom

TPA critical to new trade agreements that secure globalgrowth

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2009, fully one-third of our economic growth has been due to increased exports. At a time when the

middle-class is shrinking and good-paying jobs that can support a family are few and far between, export-

related jobs offer a rare bright spot – paying up to 18% more than non-export jobs. That means more and

better-paying jobs for hardworking Americans right here at home.

Now we have the opportunity to do even more to shore up American jobs, by giving the president the trade

promotion authority he needs to complete important trade deals – like the TPP. Of the estimated 11 million jobs already supported by American exports, 1.5 million are supported by trade with one of the twelve

countries that are party to the TPP agreement. By passing this historic agreement, we have the opportunity

to expand trade even further, supporting thousands of jobs: in fact, every $1 billion in exports supports

between 5,200 to 7,000 jobs here at home. What’s more, the nonpartisan Peterson Institute found that TPP

would expand U.S. exports by $123.5 billion, translating to an increase of $77 billion in real income for

Americans by 2025.

Critics of the TPP have expressed concerns about the transparency of negotiations. While I agree we should

work to make this process as open as possible, we also have to balance the need for participating nations to

negotiate in good faith – that means ensuring enough discretion that every country can lay their cards on

the table. It’s thanks to this measured approach and President Obama’s leadership that we have been able to

bring a dozen countries to the negotiating table, comprising more than 40% of the global economy. With

strong safeguards for workplace safety, wages, and the environment, this agreement will make sure that the

United States continues to lead on trade while deepening our ties to our partners around the Pacific.

Expanding free and fair trade will not only support thousands of new jobs here at home – it will strengthen

our position overseas. Since his first term in office, President Obama has made a clear commitment to the

Asia-Pacific region, doubling down on our commitments with our allies while also working to forge new

relationships in this critical part of the world. Passing the TPP will build on this commitment to our

partners overseas and ensure the United States has a seat at the table writing the rules of the road for the

coming decades, instead of leaving it to other countries to do it without us. In recent years, the Asia-Pacific

region has seen nearly 200 new trade deals – and the vast majority of these agreements make zero

commitments to labor rights or to environmental protections. Abandoning the TPP now would cede

American leadership to nations with less interest in ensuring that workers are paid fairly and have safe

workplaces or that communities can defend their clean air and oceans.

Today, fully 95 percent of the world’s markets lie beyond our borders. We cannot afford to look inward

while the rest of the world grows closer together – if we want to shape the world, we must engage in it.

Giving trade promotion authority to the president will enable us to negotiate modern trade deals that

guarantee a better future for American workers, while ensuring that the United States continues to lead well

into the 21st century.

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more mar+et-oriented economies in line with U and future decades will see e9en greaterincreases in +hinese ower and inJuence. But eactl how this drama will play

out is an oen Yuestion . Will China o9erthrow the existing order or %ecome a

art of itM And what> if anthing> can the United States do to maintain its

osition as +hina risesMSome o%ser9ers %elie9e that the American era is coming to an end> as the'esternoriented world order is relaced % one increasingl dominated %the 5ast. The historian Niall in short> is hard to o9erturn and eas to oin.

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This unusuall dura%le and eansi9e order is itself the roduct of farsightedU.S. leadershi. After 'orld 'ar //> the United States did not siml esta%lishitself as the leading world ower. /t led in the creation of uni9ersal institutionsthat not onl in9ited glo%al mem%ershi %ut also %rought democracies andmar!et societies closer together. /t %uilt an order that facilitated thearticiation and integration of %oth esta%lished great owers and newl

indeendent states. 8/t is often forgotten that this ostwar order wasdesigned in large art to reintegrate the defeated Ais states and the%eleaguered Allied states into a uniKed international sstem.: Toda> China cangain full access to and thrie within this system. And if it does> China will rise, but

the Western order !! if managed roerl !! will lie on.

As it faces an ascendant +hina> the U nited S tates should remem%er that its

leadershi of the 'estern order allows it to shape the enironment in which Chinawill make critical strategic choices. /f it wants to reser9e this leadershi>

Washington must wor! to strengthen the rules and institutions that underpin that

order ma!ing it e9en easier to oin and harder to o9erturn. U.S. grandstrateg should %e %uilt around the motto IThe road to the 5ast runs throughthe 'est.I /t must sin! the roots of this order as deel as ossi%le> gi9ing+hina greater incenti9es for integration than for oosition and increasing thechances that the sstem will sur9i9e e9en after U.S. relati9e ower hasdeclined.

The United StatesH Iuniolar momentI will ine9ita%l end. /f the deKningstruggle of the twentKrst centur is %etween +hina and the United States>+hina will ha9e the ad9antage. /f the deKning struggle is %etween +hina anda re9i9ed 'estern sstem> the 'est will triumh.

T$ANS/T/(NA0 ANR/5T/5S+hina is well on its wa to %ecoming a formida%le glo%al ower. The siCe of itseconom has Yuadruled since the launch of mar!et reforms in the late-,)s and> % some estimates> will dou%le again o9er the net decade. /t has%ecome one of the worldHs maor manufacturing centers and consumesroughl a third of the glo%al sul of iron> steel> and coal. /t has accumulatedmassi9e foreign reser9es> worth more than [- trillion at the end of 2".+hinaHs militar sending has increased at an inJationadusted rate of o9er-* ercent a ear> and its dilomac has etended its reach not ust in Asia%ut also in Africa> 0atin America> and the 7iddle 5ast. /ndeed> whereas theSo9iet Union ri9aled the United States as a militar cometitor onl> China isemerging as both a military and an economic rial heralding a profound shift in thedistri%ution of glo%al power ."ower transitions are a recurring problem in international relations . As scholars suchas Paul 1enned and $o%ert 6ilin ha9e descri%ed it> world olitics has %eenmar!ed % a succession of owerful states rising u to organiCe theinternational sstem. A owerful state can create and enforce the rules andinstitutions of a sta%le glo%al order in which to ursue its interests andsecurit. But nothing lasts fore9er# longterm changes in the distri%ution ofpower gie rise to new challenger states, who set off a struggle oer the terms of thatinternational order . $ising states want to translate their newl acYuired owerinto greater authorit in the glo%al sstem to reshae the rules andinstitutions in accordance with their own interests. #eclining states> in turn> fear

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their loss of control and worr a%out the securit imlications of their wea!enedosition.

These moments are fraught with danger . 'hen a state occuies a

commanding osition in the international sstem> neither it nor wea!er statesha9e an incenti9e to change the eisting order. But when the ower of achallenger state grows

and the ower of the leading state wea!ens>a strategic

rialry ensues, and conJict erhas leading to war %ecomes li!el . The

danger of ower transitions is catured most dramaticall in the case of latenineteenthcentur 6erman. /n -*)> the United 1ingdom had a threetoonead9antage in economic ower o9er 6erman and a signiKcant militarad9antage as wellZ % -,3> 6erman had ulled ahead in terms of %otheconomic and militar ower. As 6erman uniKed and grew> so> too> did itsdissatisfactions and demands> and as it grew more owerful> it increasinglaeared as a threat to other great owers in 5uroe> and securitcometition %egan. /n the strategic realignments that followed> $ussia> and the United 1ingdom> formerl enemies> %anded together toconfront an emerging 6erman. The result was a European war . 7an o%ser9ers

see this dnamic emerging in U.S.+hinese relations. I/f +hina continues itsimressi9e economic growth o9er the net few decades>I the realist scholar

Gohn 7earsheimer has written> Ithe United States and +hina are li!el toengage in an intense securit cometition with considera%le otential forwar.IBut not all power transitions generate war or o9erturn the old order. /n the earl

decades of the twentieth centur> the U nited 1 ingdom ceded authorit to

the U nited States without great conflict or e9en a ruture in relations. GaanHs econom grew from the eYui9alent ofK9e ercent of U.S. 6DP to the eYui9alent of o9er " ercent of U.S. 6DP> andet Gaan ne9er challenged the eisting international order.

+learl> there are di=erent tes of ower transitions. Some states ha9e seentheir economic and geoolitical ower grow dramaticall and ha9e stillaccommodated themsel9es to the eisting order. (thers ha9e risen u andsought to change it. Some ower transitions ha9e led to the %rea!down of theold order and the esta%lishment of a new international hierarch. (thers ha9e%rought a%out onl limited adustments in the regional and glo%al sstem.A 9ariet of factors determine the wa in which ower transitions unfold. Thenature of the rising stateHs regime and the degree of its dissatisfaction withthe old order are critical# at the end of the nineteenth centur> the UnitedStates> a li%eral countr an ocean awa from 5uroe> was %etter a%le toem%race the Britishcentered international order than 6erman was. But e9enmore decisi9e is the character of the international order itself for it is the

nature of the international order that shaes a rising stateHs choice %etweenchallenging that order and integrating into it.(P5N ($D5$

The ostwar 'estern order is historicall uniYue. An international orderdominated % a owerful state is %ased on a mi of coercion and consent> %utthe U.S.led order is distincti9e in that it has %een more li%eral than imerial and so unusuall accessi%le> legitimate> and dura%le. /ts rules andinstitutions are rooted in> and thus reinforced %> the e9ol9ing glo%al forces of democrac and caitalism. /t is eansi9e> with a wide and widening arra of

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articiants and sta!eholders. /t is caa%le of generating tremendous economicgrowth and ower while also signaling restraint all of which ma!e it hard too9erturn and eas to oin./t was the elicit intention of the 'estern orderHs architects in the -,4s toma!e that order integrati9e and eansi9e. Before the +old 'ar slit theworld into cometing cams> integrate the defeated states> and esta%lish mechanisms forsecurit cooeration and eansi9e economic growth. /n fact> it was$oose9elt who urged o9er the oosition of 'inston +hurchill that +hina%e included as a ermanent mem%er of the UN Securit +ouncil. The thenAustralian am%assador to the United States wrote in his diar after his Krstmeeting with $oose9elt during the war> Ie said that he had numerousdiscussions with 'inston a%out +hina and that he felt that 'inston was 4ears %ehind the times on +hina and he continuall referred to the +hinese asH+hin!sH and H+hinamenH and he felt that this was 9er dangerous. e wantedto !ee +hina as a friend %ecause in 4 or earsH time +hina might easil%ecome a 9er owerful militar nation.I

(9er the net half centur> the United States used the sstem of rules andinstitutions it had %uilt to good e=ect. 'est 6erman was %ound to itsdemocratic 'estern 5uroean neigh%ors through the 5uroean +oal andSteel +ommunit 8and> later> the 5uroean +ommunit: and to the UnitedStates through the Atlantic securit actZ Gaan was %ound to the UnitedStates through an alliance artnershi and eanding economic ties. TheBretton 'oods meeting in -,44 laid down the monetar and trade rules thatfacilitated the oening and su%seYuent Jourishing of the world econom anastonishing achie9ement gi9en the ra9ages of war and the cometinginterests of the great owers. Additional agreements %etween the UnitedStates> 'estern 5uroe> and Gaan solidiKed the oen and multilateralcharacter of the ostwar world econom. After the onset of the +old 'ar> the7arshall Plan in 5uroe and the -,- securit act %etween the United Statesand Gaan further integrated the defeated Ais owers into the 'estern order./n the Knal das of the +old 'ar> this sstem once again ro9ed remar!a%lsuccessful. As the So9iet Union declined> the 'estern order o=ered a set ofrules and institutions that ro9ided So9iet leaders with %oth reassurances andoints of access e=ecti9el encouraging them to %ecome a art of thesstem. 7oreo9er> the shared leadershi of the order ensuredaccommodation of the So9iet Union. As the $eagan administration ursued ahardline olic toward 7oscow> the 5uroeans ursued d\tente andengagement. I there was a moderating Iull>Iallowing 7i!hail 6or%ache9 to ursue highris! reforms. (n the e9e of6erman uniKcation> the fact that a united 6erman would %e em%edded in5uroean and Atlantic institutions rather than %ecoming an indeendentgreat ower heled reassure 6or%ache9 that neither 6erman nor 'esternintentions were hostile. After the +old 'ar> the 'estern order once againmanaged the integration of a new wa9e of countries> this time from theformerl communist world. Three articular features of the 'estern orderha9e %een critical to this success and longe9it. unli!e the imerial sstems of the ast> the Western order is built aroundrules and norms of nondiscrimination and market openness> creating conditions for

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rising states to ad9ance their eanding economic and olitical goals withinit. Across histor> international orders ha9e 9aried widel in terms of whetherthe material %eneKts that are generated accrue disroortionatel to theleading state or are widel shared. /n the 'estern sstem> the %arriers toeconomic articiation are low> and the otential %eneKts are high. China hasalready discoered the massie economic returns that are possible % oerating withinthis oenmar!et system.

TPA critical to sto% the rise o* 5hina

$e. (an B 5ru6, 4-2-> $an a $eu%lican from 'isconsin> is chairmanof the ouse 'a and 7eans +ommittee. Sen. +ruC> a $eu%lican from Teas>heads the Senate +ommerce +ommittee&s su%committee on Sace> Scienceand +ometiti9eness> 'all Street Gournal> Putting +ongress in +harge on

Trade> htt#;;www.ws.com;articles;uttingcongressinchargeontrade-42,",4, D(A# 42--The United States is making headway on two historic trade agreements, one with 11 countries on thePacific Rim and another with America’s friends in Europe. These two agreements alone would mean

greater access to a billion customers for American manufacturers, farmers and ranchers. But before the U.S.

can complete the agreements, Congress needs to strengthen the country’s bargaining position by

establishing trade-promotion authority, also known as TPA, which is an arrangement between Congress

and the president for negotiating and considering trade agreements. In short, TPA is what U.S. negotiators

need to win a fair deal for the American worker. There is a lot at stake. One in five American jobs depends

on trade, and that share is only going to grow. Ninety-six percent of the world’s customers are outside the

U.S. To create more jobs here, America needs to sell more goods and services over there. When that

happens, the American worker benefits. Manufacturing jobs tied to trade pay 16% more on average,

according to a study released by the independent U.S. International Trade Commission. Right now,

though, the American worker isn’t competing on a level playing field against many overseas economies.

The U.S. economy is one of the most open in the world—and for good reason. Thanks to lower duties on

imports, the average American family saves $13,600 a year, according to a study by HSBC. But other

countries put up trade barriers that drive up prices for U.S. goods and services and make it hard to sell them

there. The American worker can compete with anybody, if given a fair chance. If you add up all 20

countries that the U.S. has a trade agreement with, American manufacturers run a $50 billion trade surplus

with them. The problem is that not all countries have a trade agreement with the U.S.; American

manufacturers run a $500 billion trade deficit with those nations. That is why the U.S. needs effective trade

agreements to lay down fair and strong rules that level the playing field. Without such rules, America’s

trading partners will keep stacking the deck against job creators in this country. But Congress can’t just

take the administration’s word that it will drive a hard bargain. We have to hold it accountable, and that is

what trade-promotion authority will help do. Under TPA, Congress lays out three basic requirements for

the administration. First, it must pursue nearly 150 specific negotiating objectives, like beefing up

protections for U.S. intellectual property or eliminating kickbacks for government-owned firms. Second,

the administration must consult regularly with Congress and meet high transparency standards. And third,before anything becomes law, Congress gets the final say. The Constitution vests all legislative power in

Congress. So TPA makes it clear that Congress—and only Congress—can change U.S. law. If the

administration meets all the requirements, Congress will give the agreement an up-or-down vote. But if the

administration fails, Congress can hit the brakes, cancel the vote and stop the agreement. Trade-promotion

authority will hold the administration accountable both to Congress and to the American people. Under

TPA, any member of Congress will be able to read the negotiating text. Any member will be able to get a

briefing from the U.S. trade representative’s office on the status of the negotiations—at any time. Any

member will get to be a part of negotiating rounds. And most important, TPA will require the

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administration to post the full text of the agreement at least 60 days before completing the deal, so the

American people can read it themselves. The stakes are high, because if you’re not moving forward in trade

negotiations, you’re falling behind. In the first 10 years of this century, the countries of East Asia

negotiated 48 trade agreements. The U.S., on the other hand, negotiated just two in that region. As a result,

America’s share of East Asia’s imports fell by 42%. Every top U.S. competitor did better—every one of

them. Meanwhile, China is negotiating agreements with anyone who will listen—from South Korea and

Australia to Norway. And it isn’t free enterprise the Chinese are pushing. Instead, it is their own form ofcrony capitalism. They’re writing rules that favor government-owned firms and hamper American job

creators. So it all comes down to this question: Is China going to write the rules of the global economy, or

is the United States? By establishing TPA, Congress will send a signal to the world. America’s trading

partners will know that the U.S. is trustworthy and then put their best offers on the table. America’s rivals

will know that the U.S. is serious and won’t abandon the field. And the American people will know this

trade agreement is a good, fair deal—because they’ll have the information they need to decide for

themselves. Promoting American trade will create more opportunity in the country, and so we strongly urge

our colleagues in Congress to vote for trade-promotion authority.

:ailure to cement trade agreements means US cedesleadershi% to other countries

Bo% Stallman> 42--> +hiewa> ?Time to 7o9e Ag @htt#;;chiewa.com;dunnconnect;news;oinion;columnists;timetomo9eagtradeforwardwithta;articleO2ca,fe*d%4aa-3*d%-%f-*3c.html D(AZ 422-

U.S. agriculture eorted more than [-2 %illion in roducts last ear alone>and there&s room for more growth et. 'ith Trade Promotion Authoriteected to ta!e center stage on the legislati9e agenda this sring> farmersand ranchers are read for trade agreements that create %usiness and %oostthe American econom.

TPA legislation isn&t new> %ut now is rime time for renewal. /t Krst assed in

-,)4 and has %een critical to the success of imortant agreements for U.S.agriculture with South 1orea> +olom%ia and Panama. 'e&re now read toeand our mar!ets e9en further with am%itious trade negotiations acrossthe glo%e from Asia to 5uroe. But we need to stand Krm and show othercountries that we&re read to act on Knal o=ers at the negotiating ta%le. TPAcreates an imortant artnershi %etween the administration and +ongressto mo9e trade agreements forward.

The U.S. econom loses out when trade agreements are crushed in the Knalhour % deal!illing amendments. 'e wea!en our standing in the glo%almar!etlace> and hand economic leadershi o9er to other countries. 'ith

TPA> the administration reresents our %est interests %efore other countrieswithout Jing solo in negotiations. +ongress and the administration must

continue to shae and set riorities %ased on what the&re hearing directlfrom American %usinesses.

This is where agriculture can continue to ta!e a leading role in shaing ourtrade agenda. and it&s our o% to get this message to olicma!ers. 'hen we&re allon the same age in negotiations> the rocess mo9es swiftl as +ongress canact on Knal agreements with a straight u or down 9ote.0imiting access to American food ust doesn&t ma!e sense. %ut high tari=s and

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nonscientiKc %arriers lace our eorts at a disad9antage. Ta!e the 5U> foreamle. 0ast ear the U.S. eorted [-2.) %illion in agricultural roducts tothe 5U> %ut we also imorted [-*.) %illion in agricultural roducts from the5U.

These num%ers don&t mean we had less to sell# (ur mar!ets are siml moreoen while the 5U continues to let olitics rather than science dictate its

trade restrictions. 7eanwhile> on the other side of the glo%e> our trade with Gaan is ust a fraction of what it could %e> largel %ecause of ricerestrictions and high tari=s.American %usinesses rel on trade agreements to %rea! down %arriers andcreate a more %alanced mar!etlace for all. But we must come tonegotiations with a clear agenda and the authorit to %ac! it u. The U.S. ison the 9erge of comleting one of our most am%itious trade agendas indecades. TPA is essential to comleting these agreements> including the

Trans PaciKc Partnershi with -- other countries across the Asia;PaciKc regionand the Transatlantic Trade and /n9estment Partnershi with the 5U.

TPA eired too long ago# +ongress and the administration need to wor!together to renew it %efore 9alua%le trade relationshis are soiled.

5hina will lead in Asian trade i* TPA *ails

The Lomiuri Shimbun, A%ril 22> 2-> ?Gaan> US must ull out all stos toensure success in TPP tal!s>@ htt#;;theaannews.com;news;article;2,,224 D(A# 422-

The TPP act is signiKcant in that it can ser9e to esta%lish an economic orderthat rests on transarent and fair rules within the en9isaged free trade %loc>which comrises mainl Asian countries that are eected to grow./t is worring to note that the standstill in the TPP negotiations comes at a

time when +hina is ta!ing stead stes to cement its osition as the ?leader@of the Asian econom.

The num%er of nations set to articiate in the founding of the en9isaged+hinaled Asian /nfrastructure /n9estment Ban! totals ). owe9er> it isuncertain whether the new Knancial institution will %e fairl managed andwhether it will roerl eamine loan reYuests.6i9en this> (%ama had e9er reason to sa> ?... we must %e sure that we arewriting the rules for the glo%al econom> not a countr li!e +hina.@

To ensure the tal!s among all TPP negotiators are successfull concluded> it isessential for the United States to enact legislation granting the residentwhat is !nown as trade romotion authorit 8TPA:. /f the U.S. resident doesnot ossess the TPA> a trade agreement reached %etween the U.S. and othergo9ernments could %e reduced to a dead letter %ecause of o%ections fromthe U.S +ongress.

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TPA 9m%act – #31s #ood C"ia TT9PD

TP9P enables the US to %ush !uro%e to o%en its mar+ets to

geneticall modi0ed *oods Tom Phillot, A%ril 22> 2-> 7other Gones> ?(%ama is Poised to 6i9e 67(7eat +omanies Something The&9e Alwas 'anted>@htt#;;www.motherones.com;tomhilott;2-;4;hereswhgmoandmeatindustrieslo9etransaciKcartnershi D(A# 422-

Another massi9e agri%usiness sector> the #31 seed esticide industr>otentiall stands to gain *rom the TT9P> because the !uroean Unionhas much more restricti"e regulations on rolling out no"el cro%sthan the USE and some member states> including maintainmoratoriums on lanting certain 67 cros. Attemting to drum u suort for

the fasttrac! %ill on +aitol ill> USDA secretar Tom Eilsac! and US Trade$eresentati9e 7ichael :roman ha"e been been %romising to use the%ro%osed treat has a hammer to *orce broader acce%tance in the!U. IEilsac! said the administration would Hcontinue to negotiate 9er hardHto re9ent indi9idual 5U countries from %loc!ing use of aro9ed %iotechroducts>I reorts Agri-Pulse's Phili Brasher> in an account of a hearing lastwee! held % the Senate %ut we do thin! the decisions a%out what is safe should %e made % scienceand not % olitics.IEilsac! has also rallied the agri%usiness industr to lo%% +ongress in fa9or of the fasttrac! %ill> calling on Ifarmers> ranchers> agri%usiness owners> and

other industr grous to urge +ongress to ass trade romotion authorit forPresident (%ama and to suort the Trans PaciKc Partnershi 8TPP: tradeagreement>I reorts the North American 7eat /nstitute.But whatHs good for the meat and %iotech industries industr isnHt necessarilgood for the countr. As The Intercept's 0ee which is negotiating the tradedeals> is shot through with *ormer biotech-industr ac+s. The fasttrac! %ill would further curtail u%lic de%ate on a treat rocess thatHs alread%een notoriousl secreti9e. / hoe Democratic senators def the resident onthis one.

!uro%e&s #31 ban undermines #31s globall, othercountries model

#31s sol"e *ood insecurit and *amine, !uro%e&s banundermines their ado%tion in A*rica

Jennifer Thompson, 8/7/06, The Australian, “Use biotechnology to feed the poor, professor of molecular

and cell biology at the Uni!ersity of "ape To#n $%A&, chairperson of the Agrican Agricultural Technology

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'oundation in (enya, spea)er at the Agricultural *iotechnology +nternational "onference, e-is, acc.

7/0/07

'5 all !now that much of the de9eloing world struggles to Knd enough foodfor its eole. Let %ureaucrats in 5uroe sit and determine that thesecountries and others should %e cautious in adoting geneticall modiKedcros until the are deemed safe. 7eanwhile thousands> if not hundreds of

thousands> of eole are ding . 7el%ourne is hosting an internationalagricultural %iotechnolog conference that o=ers the chance to de%ate and>hoefull> sol9e this growing schism %etween those in the 'est who want todo the HH%estHH % the rest of the world and the rest of the world who simlwant to eat. /f su%Saharan Africa continues to roduce cros %ased on itsresent agricultural ractices> there will %e a cereal shortage of nearl ,million tonnes % the ear 22. +learl something has to %e done . +ertainlthere is enough food roduced in the world to feed e9erone# the ro%lem ishow to get it to the eole in needM /deall> we should sto wars andeliminate corrution so that food gets to the right eole and %uild roads andrailwa lines to transort food from areas of feast to those of famine. But howlong will that ta!eM /n the meantime> geneticall modiKed cros that gi9e

increased ields are ust one of the was in which we can tac!le the ro%le m.ow safe is food deri9ed from 67 crosM 0isten to +raig Eenter> a scientistwho led the team that seYuenced the human genome. No food cro> heinsists> has e9er %een tested for human safet as rigorousl as 67 cros./ndeed> in contrast> man con9entional food cros can %e etremel toic .

The %ottom line is that multinational comanies ha9e little interest inimro9ing ields of these African cros. So we ha9e to roduce themoursel9es. /n South Africa> 67 cros that are %eing culti9ated includeher%icideresistant maiCe and so%ean> as well as insectresistant cotton andmaiCe. 5ach alication for a commercial release is assessed % the 6enetic$esource +entre of the National Deartment of Agriculture on a case%case%asis. The cotton and maiCe are %eing grown % man smallscale farmers

who are eeriencing great increases in ields. /n addition> with insectresistant cotton and maiCe> the are sa9ing mone % decreasing their use ofinsecticides deKnitel an en9ironmental imro9ement. (ther cros in theieline include maiCe resistant to the African endemic maiCe strea! 9irusand cassa9a resistant to the African cassa9a mosaic 9irus. 7SE is ramant inman African countries> and a few ears ago Uganda nearl lost its entirecro of cassa9a to A+7E> which is sreading raidl towards Nigeria> one ofAfricaHs most imortant roducers of the cro. Another trait that is %eingde9eloed in imortant African cros is drought tolerance. The lac! of wateris surel one of the greatest ro%lems facing agriculture in Africa. Threeears ago the US> +anada and Argentina Kled a comlaint against the 5U>claiming the -,,* moratorium on 67 cros 9iolated a food trade treat that

reYuires regulator decisions to %e made without HHundue delaHH and to %e%ased on science. The iron is that 9er few 5uroean countries grow 67cros> et 5uroe is the worldHs %iggest imorter of so%eans> used for animaland chic!en feed e9er since the mad cow disease scare turned them againstusing animal roducts for feed. But the 9ast maorit of so%ean is 67> soalthough 5uroe doesnHt grow man 67 cros> it certainl imorts them. /n the 'orld Trade (rganisation ruled in fa9our of the US when itfound that the 5U %reached international rules % restricting imorts of

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geneticall modiKed cros and food made from them . The decision signalleda 9ictor for the agricultural %iotechnolog industr> which for ears has %een%attling oosition to its roducts from consumers and go9ernments in5uroe. (ne of the !e issues to %e discussed at the AB/+ meeting in7el%ourne will %e how these recent de9eloments in 5uroe will hoefulldiminish the schism %etween the de9eloing and de9eloed worlds. 5uroe

can no lo nger sit %ac!> amid its mountains of etra food> and determine thatthe world should %e HHcautiousHH a%out its use of 67 cro s. Becausecontinental 5uroe and Scandina9ia do not want 67 cros and foods> theshould not re9ent Africans from %eneKting from this technolog. /ndeed>such a osition is immoral. As the sit in their oces and homescontemlating the ossi%le dangers of 67 foods> 5U %ureaucrats wille=ecti9el commit Africans and those in other de9eloing countries to ears>e9en decades> of further star9ation.

Star"ation in A*rica +ills more than three times the death

toll o* all the wars o* the 2Gth centur combined<New Hor+ Times> 2GGI> AfricaZ 'here is the continent headed with hungerMhtt#;;www.leisneis.com;us;lnacademic;results;doc9iew;doc9iew.doMris%2-OT-)2),32*Xformat6NB almost 4 millioneole in Africa ha9e died from hunger and oor sanitation according to the

reort. That is three times the num%er of eole !illed in all wars fought inthe 2th centur. (9er se9en million eole die each ear %ecause theoorest African countries send more mone on de%t ament than on healthand roducti9e life. / was tring to gi9e ou a clue of how we sur9i9e in Africa>though we get a heling hand from donors> the situation is so alarming thatthe hel almost leads us to no where. unger is a wa oneHs %od signals thatit needs food. To man Africans> are ha9ing that signal> it onl %ecomes awish to ha9e food. That is enough reason to elain stunted growth and theunderweight of children in Africa. As 5uroeans are getting o%esit ro%lems>malnutrition is %ecoming ermanentl ours in Africa. So sad that - out of )eole in Africa is at least su=ering from malnutrition. A third of Su%SaharanAfricaHs oulation reresenting almost 2 million eole go to %ed without

food and 3-er cent of their children under the age of K9e are malnourished.(ne might wonder what is reall causing this hunger.

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TPA 9m%act – 9mmigration (e*orm9mmigrationCTPP 9nternalD

TPA means 5ongress can&t sto% immigration re*orm

Ale Newman> 422-> ?(%ama6(P QTrade& Scheme /ncludes QUnrestricted/mmigration.&@htt#;;www.thenewamerican.com;usnews;immigration;item;2)-o%amagotradeschemeincludesunrestrictedimmigration D(A# 422-The establishment GOP-backed Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), recently touted by the White House as the

“most progressive trade agreement in history,” is also a “Trojan horse” to advance Obama’s

“unrestricted immigration” agenda, according to political insiders and critics who have studied the

secretive scheming. With the Big Government wing of the Republican Party currently plotting to empower

the Obama administration with fast-track Trade Promotion Authority to make it easier to impose the TPP

and other radical agreements on the American people, opponents are warning that the White House

immigration agenda may become all but impossible to stop. Critics say Congress must refuse to empowerObama on the issue. The controversial TPP, of course, is disguised as a treaty to promote “free trade” —

more properly described as managed or corporatist trade — among nations surrounding the Pacific.

However, the TPP agreement, currently being negotiated behind closed doors by governments,

dictatorships, and special interests, includes some major surprises. As The New American

reported recently, a leaked chapter of the TPP deal would create NAFTA-style international “tribunals”

with the purported authority to override American laws, courts, and even the U.S. and state constitutions —

all for the benefit of special interests, foreigners, and crony capitalists. The American people and self-

government would be the big losers. Another chapter of the agreement making headlines this week,

meanwhile, purports to regulate immigration policies among TPP signatories. “The Trans-Pacific

Partnership includes an entire chapter on immigration,” observed Curtis Ellis, executive director of the

American Jobs Alliance, in a post for The Hill. “It is a Trojan horse for Obama's immigration agenda.

House members who were ready to defund the Department of Homeland Security to stop PresidentObama's executive action on immigration must not give him TPA, which he will use to ensure his

immigration actions are locked in when he leaves office.” Despite harsh rhetoric and various empty

threats about stopping the Obama administration’s executive decrees purporting to provide amnesty for

illegal immigrants, Republican leaders in Congress, who promptly caved to White House demands on

amnesty, have failed to even mention the TPP immigration schemes since 2012. In fact, beyond simply

refusing to address the subject, establishment GOP lawmakers are working overtime — with establishment

Democrats — to empower Obama with Trade Promotion Authority. This week, lawmakers unveiled S. 995

to surrender their constitutionally delegated authority over trade to Obama via fast-track TPA. Under TPA,

any pseudo-free-trade deal negotiated by Obama, foreign governments, and special interests would merely

get an up or down vote in Congress, denying lawmakers an opportunity to amend it. The scheme would

also bypass the constitutional method for ratifying treaties — two-thirds majority support in the Senate —

in favor of a simple majority vote in both houses of Congress. If approved, Obama’s immigration

machinations, including a drastically expanded “temporary worker” program, would reportedly be

set in stone, beyond the reach of the American people or their elected representatives. “All these

‘21st-century trade agreements’ are written by the same corporate interests and negotiators, and all have the

same goal: more visas for foreign workers,” continued Ellis with the American Jobs Alliance. “If TPP goes

into effect, they will be beyond the reach of any future Congress. The Trans-Pacific Partnership is another

instance of Obama using every means he can to advance his immigration agenda, as he said he would.” The

plot to use TPP as a backdoor for advancing Obama’s immigration agenda has received virtually no

coverage by the establishment press. But it is not because the information is not there. In fact, Obama’s

Trade Representative in charge of negotiating the pact with foreign regimes and special interests even

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boasted that the “temporary entry” guest worker scheme is a “key feature” of the controversial “trade”

regime being negotiated. “TPP countries have substantially concluded the general provisions of the

chapter,” the administration said, referring to the TPP chapter on immigration matters. “Specific

obligations related to individual categories of business person are under discussion.” As Ellis also

explained in The Hill, the TPP is not the first time Obama has attempted to use “trade” scheming to rewrite

immigration law. The U.S.-South Korea pseudo-“free trade” regime, for example, expanded the L-1 visa

program — blasted by the Homeland Security Inspect General for fraud — used by corporations to bringmore foreign workers into the United States. Obama even celebrated his machinations on the L-1

immigration program last month at a corporate summit, saying it “allows corporations to temporarily move

workers from a foreign office to a U.S. office in a faster, simpler way.” He also boasted that “hundreds of

thousands” of foreign workers could benefit from his scheme. Of course, Big Business and special interests

— especially the anti-sovereignty internationalists hoping to crush national sovereignty in favor of

regionalism and globalism — have made their support for massive, uncontrolled immigration clear. Aside

from openly supporting amnesty for illegal immigrants already in the country, one corporate trade

association cited in The Hill piece said it hoped to abolish all barriers: “The TPP should remove restrictions

on nationality or residency requirements for the selection of personnel.” In other words, de facto open

borders. “Remember this: nothing Congress puts in TPA will alter what's already been negotiated over

the past six years,” argued Ellis. “It would be inexcusable for Congress to give Obama TPA so he can fast-

track his immigration agenda.” In a column published last week, meanwhile, pundit and former Bill Clinton

advisor Dick Morris also sounded the alarm about the mass-immigration-by-stealth agenda being pursuedby the Obama administration. “Under the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement, Congress could

lose the power to restrict immigration,” he explained. “We could find ourselves back in the era before the

1920s when there were no restrictions on immigration and anyone from anywhere could come to our

shores. And Republicans, from Mitch McConnell and John Boehner on down, are unwittingly helping

Obama achieve this goal.” More likely, of course, is that the establishment wing of the GOP is wittingly

helping Obama. According to Morris, the TPP “contains a barely noticed provision that allows for the

free migration of labor among the signatory nations.” Indeed, that element is actually patterned after

similar provisions in the treaties foisted on European peoples to destroy national sovereignty and impose

the unaccountable super-state now known as the European Union. The provision on immigration, Morris

said, “would override national immigration restrictions in the name of facilitating free flow of labor.” That

could “easily be interpreted” as “allowing farm workers and others to flow back and forth without legal

regulation,” he added. Aside from the open borders component, it would also be a massive blow to the U.S.Constitution. “The treaty could lead to the effective repeal of the specifically enumerated power granted to

Congress in Article I of the Constitution to regulate immigration and naturalization,” Morris said. “While

the treaty is still being negotiated, the current focus on white-collar immigration [is] sufficiently elastic to

allow open borders.” “It is odd, indeed, to see Republicans falling all over themselves to reward this

president with more power, voluntarily reducing Congressional oversight and increasing executive

authority,” Morris argued. “At the very least, one would assume that TPP would give the GOP bargaining

power to force Obama to backtrack on amnesty for people immigrating illegally and possibly on

Obamacare. But far from forcing concessions, Republicans are lining up in support of fast track and, by

implication, TPP.” In a follow-up this week on Newsmax TV’s “America’s Forum,” Morris also noted that

the TPP immigration provisions would allow “free flow of workers” between the countries being targeted

for submission under the supranational TPP regime — Canada, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Japan,

Malaysia, Singapore, Communist Vietnam, Brunei, Chile, and Peru. Eventually, Communist China could

join, too. That little-noticed provision would create what Morris described as “unrestricted immigration,”all beyond the reach of Congress. “This is huge,” Morris said. “I hope everybody listening takes action, call

your senator about it.” Phone numbers for lawmakers can be found here. On April 21, Executive Director

Roy Beck of the immigration-focused NumbersUSA also put lawmakers on notice. “President Obama has

made it abundantly clear that he believes he has virtually unfettered authority to change U.S. immigration

law,” the group warned in a message to every member of Congress explaining that a vote in favor of TPA

would be scored as a vote against American workers. “It should not be surprising, therefore, that his

administration is attempting to use the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement to commit America

to immigration increases that Congress has neither debated nor approved.” “Despite a U.S. labor force

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participation rate that is at its lowest level since 1978, President Obama wants to use the TPP to further

reduce the jobs available to U.S. workers and instead reserve certain jobs for foreign workers under the

agreement,” NumbersUSA continued. “It is indefensible that Congress would now consider surrendering

even more of its authority over immigration to this President in order to fast track a trade agreement that

will harm American workers, and the text of which Congress has not even seen.” As of now, faced with an

avalanche of opposition from across the political spectrum, it is not clear that the establishment wing of the

GOP has enough votes to ram through the bill to empower Obama with TPA. However, if the Americanpeople do not get educated, active, and organized, the threat of TPA, TPP, and other schemes will continue

to grow.

9mmigration is +e to maintaining economic growth5enter *or American Progress G ]ow /mmigration $eform 'ouldel the 5conom> .htt#;;www.americanrogress.org;issues;immigration;news;2-;-;-4;)-3;howimmigrationreformwouldheltheeconom;^

A new re%ort, ?(aising the :loor *or American Wor+ers The!conomic 'ene0ts o* 5om%rehensi"e 9mmigration (e*orm,@ b Dr. $a_l/ino.osa-1.eda, 0nds that com%rehensi"e immigration re*orm thatincludes a legaliCation rogram for unauthoriCed immigrants and ena%les a future Jow of legal wor!ers

would result in a large economic bene0t Wa cumulati9e [-. trillion in added U.S.gross domestic roduct o9er - ears. /n star! contrast> a deortation onl olic would result in a loss of[2." trillion in 6DP o9er - ears. inoosa uses a comuta%le general eYuili%rium model %ased on the

historical eerience of the -,*" legaliCation rogram> and Knds that# 5om%rehensi"eimmigration re*orm that includes a legaliCation rogram for unauthoriCed immigrants would

stimulate the U electronic eYuiment> and construction would see articularl

large increases. The higher earning %ower o* newl legali6ed wor+erswould mean increased ta; re"enues o* L4 o% training> and 5nglishlanguage s!ills> ma!ing them e9en more roducti9e wor!ers and higher earners. 7ass deortation iscostl> lowers wages> and harms the U.S. econom. 7ass deortation would reduce U.S. 6DP % -.4"ercent> amounting to a cumulati9e [2." trillion loss in 6DP o9er - ears> not including the actual costs of deortation. The +enter for American Progress has estimated that mass deortation would cost [2"%illion to [23 %illion o9er K9e ears. 'ages would rise for lesss!illed nati9e%orn wor!ers under a massdeortation scenario> %ut highers!illed nati9es& wages would decrease> and there would %e widesread o%

loss. Studies *rom "arious researchers with di"ergent %olitical%ers%ecti"es con0rm these 0ndings< A re%ort b the libertarian 5AT1

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9nstitute using a similar 5#! model came to startlingl similarconclusions< 5AT1 *ound that legali6ation would ield signi0cantincome gains *or American wor+ers and households< =egali6ationwould boost the incomes o* U


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TPA 9m%act – 9nternet :reedom

TPA +e to 9nternet *reedom

Senator $on Wden, 4-22--> 'ired> ?Senator $on 'den# The @ htt#;;www.wired.com;2-;4;senatorronwdenfreeinternettrade; D(A# 422-

/n recent wee!s> some of m allies in the internet communit ha"eas+ed wh 9 am wor+ing on the Biartisan +ongressional Trade Prioritiesand Accounta%ilit Act> which the see as harmful to the internet. 7an ofthese acti9ists ha9e stood shouldertoshoulder with me in the ast as /fought against owerful secial interests. / areciate their 9iews and theirwor! to !ee the internet oen and free.0et me elain m osition clearl./n m 9iew> the trade romotion authorit bill / introduced last wee!> alongwith the Trans Paci0c Partnershi% that is still %eing negotiated> both%resent real o%%ortunities to %reser"e and %rotect an o%en internetaround the world</nformation 7ust Be which would ha9e %ro!en the internet to enforce corightro9isions.9 success*ull %ushed U


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%e in the tet that is not et u%lic. Some of the red Jags that ha9e %eenraised relate to concerns around current U.S. law and how it is enforced. Andsome U.S. laws> li!e the Digital 7illennium +oright Act> includes ro9isionsthat go too far to rotect coright at the eense of free seech> digitalsecurit and the u%lic good.Part of the solution is to K our laws here at home to set a %etter %alance

%etween technolog and other imortant 9alues. That is wh / introduced anew %ill last wee! to rewrite the restricti9e anticircum9ention language inD7+A. This law ma!es us more 9ulnera%le to c%erattac!s % criminaliCingresearch into securit holes in our software and electronics. /t ma!es it far toodicult to create accessi%le 9ersions of e%oo!s and other materials for thosewith imaired 9ision and other disa%ilities. And it siml doesn&t reJect therealities of toda&s digital econom. This %ill ma!es it clear that the US can roll%ac! o9erl %road /P laws e9en after the are su%ects in a trade negotiation.

Censorship unsustainable $ wrecks Chinese growth and soft power

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