More countries interested in TPP, including Muslim Indonesia

Actual TPP countries in green, interested TPP countries in turquoise or light green (Wikipedia composite map)

More countries are interested in the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) that the Obama Administration has been pushing:

October 28, 2015

JAKARTA — One year into his term as Indonesia’s president, Joko Widodo is struggling to regain the magic that captured his nation’s imagination. His vaunted economic reform plans have yet to bear much fruit. …

Indonesia, which has the world’s fourth-largest population, has long been wary of free trade. This is largely because natural resources are its only major exports. When it comes to big multilateral deals, Jakarta has favored the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership — a proposed agreement involving the Association of Southeast Asian Nations, China and India — over the TPP due to its lower degree of trade liberalization.

But Widodo, recognizing the global liberalization momentum, appears concerned that staying out of the TPP would put Indonesia at a disadvantage. http://asia.nikkei.com/Features/Trans-Pacific-Partnership/Why-Indonesia-s-Widodo-wants-in

October 27, 2015

President Obama says the U.S. and the world’s largest Muslim country will merge their economies under an agreement whose terms have not been disclosed to Congress or the public.

After Obama met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo at the White House Monday, Widodo said, “Indonesia intends to join the TPP,” referring to the TransPacific Partnership.

The TPP is a sweeping global regulatory pact. It establishes an international authority that will write rules for merging the U.S. economy with other countries in the partnership.

The administration reached an agreement on the TPP with 11 countries on four continents after negotiations that lasted more than five years. Indonesia was not involved in the negotiations. …

But neither Congress nor the public have been allowed to see the final agreement the administration has negotiated. The president has not released the text of the agreement or the numerous side agreements attached to the TPP.

The administration describes the TPP as a “living agreement” that will be updated and which other countries can join in the future.

China, South Korea, the Philippines and Taiwan also have expressed interest in joining the TPP economic union.

But it appears the U.S. Congress will not have any say in the matter. …

The unilateral move by the president to bring Indonesia into the TPP confirms charges by Sen. Jeff Sessions, R-Ala., that Congress will have no role in approving changes as the partnership grows.

Sessions read the draft of the TPP agreement earlier this year and described it as “a nascent European Union.”

Like the European Union, the Transpacific Partnership calls for the free flow of people, goods and capital among member countries.

“It’s going to put us in an international commission that allows the sultan of Brunei to have the same vote as the president of the United States,” Sessions said.

Sessions is referring to the TransPacific Partnership Commission, a governing authority created under the agreement, similar to the European Commission that oversees the European Union.

This shadowy trans-Pacific body would have vast regulatory powers the details of which the president has refused to disclose to either Congress or the public.

All the leading presidential candidates, including Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders, oppose the agreement. http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/obama-in-secret-pact-with-worlds-largest-muslim-country/#yi0LA9S1epEDbG1z.99

October 26, 2015

WHITE HOUSE—The United States and Indonesia have agreed to deepen cooperation after talks the White House says are part of the U.S. effort to rebalance toward the Asia-Pacific region. President Barack Obama met with Indonesian President Joko Widodo on Monday.

Topics included climate change, security, trade, terrorism and maritime cooperation.

After the talks, Obama called Indonesia “a key strategic partnership” in the region. He noted it is one of the world’s largest democracies, with a population of roughly 250 million, that it is a Muslim country with a tradition of moderation and tolerance, its leadership role in the region and Jakarta’s role in trade, commerce and economic development.

The Indonesian president, who prefers to be called Jokowi, said his country is “an open economy. We are the largest economy in Southeast Asia,” he said. “And Indonesia intends to join the TPP (Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership.)

Indonesia represents half of Southeast Asia’s economy, but Murray Heibert with the Center for Strategic and International Studies said the country is highly protectionist.

“Trade levels with the United States are the level of Honduras and some of the countries in Central America. It’s got 250 million people. That’s pretty miserably small trade,” he said.

Although Jokowi expressed interest in joining the Trans-Pacific Trade Partnership, he faces intense opposition at home. http://www.voanews.com/content/us-indonesia-agree-to-deepen-key-strategic-partnership/3023848.html

Considering that Indonesia is the world’s most populous Muslim country and TPP may be able to increase migration into the USA, the following article also caught my attention today:

October 27, 2015

In today’s increasingly dangerous world, many Americans are on alert for the next terrorist attack by a Muslim jihadist. But when it comes to the radical Islamic threat to the American homeland, there’s much more to be concerned about than simply terrorism, warns David Kupelian…

“Islam as a whole has been slashing and burning and forcing people to join their religion at the point of the sword for 1,400 years,” Kupelian said. “But in America, it cannot happen in that way. America is too big, too powerful, and still too Christian, so it has to happen just as … the left has [conspired] to take over America – slowly, in an evolutionary, not revolutionary, way.”

This slow, stealthy strategy involves infiltrating and subverting America’s institutions, said Kupelian. To cite one example, he noted that several “mainstream” Islamic organizations in the U.S. have close ties to the Muslim Brotherhood, among them the Muslim American Society and the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR. http://www.wnd.com/2015/10/beware-stealth-jihad-in-america/#21WfIYUgBWsIhx6l.99

From Syria to Iraq to Indonesia, the USA has been involved in matters that give rise to increased Islamic migration into the USA. Maybe that will not happen with TPP, but the military actions of the USA in the Middle East are factors in this happening.

As far as trade deals go, in general, they are supposed to benefit both parties involved.

Yet as I warned about trade talks in the past, ultimately, some of the deals will not be good for the United States of America nor its Anglo-allies like Canada, Australia, or New Zealand who are parties to TPP, nor the UK which is not. Trade disputes are likely to be one of the events that will help trigger the coming Great Tribulation (Matthew 24:21).

Europe is watching these TPP negotiations, while it works on large ones itself. There is a deal called TTIP which European leaders seem to believe will help propel European leadership in the 21st century. The continued movement of TPP will likely encourage some there to proceed with TTIP, despite some protests in Europe over that.

As I have written for years, I believe that time will come when trade disputes will prove disastrous for the USA.

We will see what TPP may bring.

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