remember the mortgage crisis? where banks commingled good loans with shitty loans?
TPP commingles one or two good trade deals with a shit load of shitty trade deals.
the thinking is that small trading partners can't get a good deal with a large trading partner like china or USA, so in order to trade they partner everyone up. the problem with this is the untied states doesn't have sophisticated negotiators putting these deals together. they are way complicated. in china there are no lines between business and government, they are the same. so they have the best of the best putting these deals together.
china has had the same plan, same people in place for the last 30 to 40 years. the US has no long term plan... china plays chess we're playing checkers