Hillary, hold firm your campaign promise that said
“I oppose the TPP agreement — and that means before and after the election.”
Ignore your "advisors" and "strategists" at CNAS (Center for a New American Security) who report to you and (all) the rest of us the necessity of implementing TPP in its strategic paper of May 16, 2016, "EXTENDING AMERICAN POWER; Strategies to Expand U.S. Engagement in a Competitive World Order" you see at www.cnas.org/... which in part prominently says:
"...we urge Congress to take up, consider, and approve the TPP as soon as possible."
This Paper, the final report from CNAS Extending American Power (EAP) Project, is bad advice even though so many of your best friends have signed it, specifically including: Kurt Campbell (Chair & CEO, The Asia Group, LLC; Co-Founder & Chair of Board of Directors of CNAS, the Center for a New American Security); Eric Edelman (Counselor, Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments); Michèle Flournoy, (Co-Founder and CEO of CNAS who you may be considering for the position of National Security Advisor if you become POTUS); Richard Fontaine (President, CNAS); Stephen J. Hadley, (Principal, RiceHadleyGates as well as former National Security Advisor); Dr. Robert Kagan, (Co-chairman of “Extending American Power” Project in CNAS as well as Senior Fellow in Project on International Order & Strategy of The Brookings Institution); James P. Rubin, (Co-chairman of “Extending American Power” Project in CNAS as well as Former Asst. Secy. of State & Chief Spokesman during the William J. Clinton Administration as well as Senior Advisor to CNAS from 2015 to 2016 as well as regular Columnist for The Sunday Times of London); Julianne Smith (Senior Fellow & Director, Strategy and Statecraft Program in CNAS); James Steinberg (Dean & Prof. of Social Science, International Affairs, & Law in Maxwell School of Citizenship & Public Affairs of Syracuse University); and Robert Zoellick (Senior Fellow in Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs of Kennedy School of Government in Harvard University).
Ignore them all telling you:
"Failure to pass the TPP will send a message to Asia and the world that the United States is simply too internally divided and inward looking to appreciate the value of such a vast regional trade arrangement. In the case of failure, China would also have a much freer hand in writing economic rules of the road in Asia. Over the longer term, a successful the TPP will serve as a standard-setter to encourage reform throughout the region."
We all know your best friend and mentor, CNAS Director Emeritus Madeleine K. Albright (Chair of Albright Stonebridge Group global strategy firm as well as Chair of Albright Capital Management LLC investment advisory firm focused on emerging markets as well as 64th U.S. Sec. of State as well as recipient of Presidential Medal of Freedom honor given to her by President Obama on May 29, 2012) wants Obama and you to push through TPP. Nonetheless it remains to be that the best advice you can heed is the really clear message from the vast majority of U.S. citizenry who admonish you to oppose the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement. You see, it’s the voice of a movement which is of course much more significant than a mere collection of electors.
Similarly, if you ascend to our national presidency, do not do every item in this First 100 Days Agenda of May 20, 2016 especially refraining from taking the “advice” to:
“Announce an interagency review of the strategically vital Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade pact to determine how to implement and expand it, while addressing legitimate domestic concerns about the unintended consequences of global trade.”
Aside from the obvious assumption that TPP will be enacted before the start of the 45th presidency of this nation, if you follow every item in this CNAS prescription for the opening months of the next presidential term, then you will alienate an overwhelming majority of the U.S. citizenry whether part of your electoral base or not. This part of CNAS’ Papers for the Next President series which was revealed in the Derwin Pereira Southeast Asia Foreign Policy Series at CNAS on May 20, 2016 advises that:
“...[...]… the new administration should announce that it is opening up discussions with other regional actors, including Indonesia and the Philippines in Southeast Asia, as well as other actors such as South Korea and Taiwan” ...[...]…
thereby making the precipitous expansion of TPP. What a terrible idea! Avoid confusing a victory in electoral politics, should you prevail, with a victory in movement politics which you are finding this campaign season does not favor your many primary victories. The burgeoning movement opposing TPP, TTIP and the like is global. The movement against TPP stiffly flies in the face of neoliberal policies.
TPP is an affront to people who move against racism and toward social justice, as well as moving against environmental racism, pollution impacts and deleterious health effects in communities of color, toward improved risk assessment, for promotion and implementation of stronger rather than weaker community responses to environmental threats, against pollution in developing nations, for indigenous peoples, and against climate change that is slowly yet assuredly killing us all. In other words, and more simply put:
TPP is an affront to the movement political environment that Senator Sanders is helping mobilize which will not accept an Obama-Clinton electoral political victory that forces TPP down the gullet of humanity.
Ms. Clinton, join us in the movement to further environmental justice: Oppose TPP & TTIP including "lame duck" Congressional session TPP passage. [and see: TPP in Recent News]