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Vietnam's manufacturing can be roughly estimated here: Trade Map - List of products imported by United States of America (Go to the page and change country to Vietnam) I have also attached screenshots for easier viewing. Export for Vietnam: Specifically under electronics: Vietnam's largest...

In some sense, that is exactly what it is. Keep in mind that US' initial goal and the most ambitious one when joining TPP is to integrate supply-manufacturing-consumption chain around pacific region, hence why countries like Australia are involved for resource, countries like Malaysia and...

Funny thing is that Vietnam should be concerned with tariff reduction in certain sectors, just like Japanese was concerned with ramifications of opening up its agriculture sector. For example, opening up agriculture sector in Japan may reduce the food price in the short term, but due to terrain...

TPP states are: Brunei Chile New Zealand Singapore Australia Canada Japan Malaysia Mexico Peru United States Vietnam So let's remove Canada and Mexico from the list due to their close proximity with US and let's remove Japan from list since it can be argued that it is a economic colony of US in...

So...your suggestion is that Vietnam alone is allowed to negotiating its only deal within TPP while the other countries are nicely following in line. :crazy:

Erm, exactly what did North Korea government did to "deliberately" keeping its people at par with some African countries? North Korea's problem is that it is a resource poor country which was overly reliant on a single trade network and supply chain which collapsed because someone else screwed...

That statement would be true if "the investment return rate is consistently lower than the interest rate". The key operating word here is overcapacity industry. Hence why the long term response is shedding overcapacity (which China has been doing for the almost a decade now) and economic...

That makes more sense. As the new observed, Vietnam kept its taxes on coal and petro export. It is reasonable to argue that if Vietnam can negotiate these, then Japan would have kept its barrier in agriculture sector. By the same train of thought, US would have kept a large percentage of its...

So, in other words, you don't actual know anything and were just pulling things out from your rear.

Well, for one thing, the chart trend is opposite to "fall". Look, all I am asking for you to state the relationship between Chinese stock market (which, btw, Shanghai index consists mainly of domestic shares which is not related to foreign investment at all, let alone TPP), Chinese currency...

Regarding to the "angsty" part, I am not sure where that actually comes from. Most the credible Chinese sites' reaction is: 1.) indifference: This is expected because US investment in China is rather small, Australia has FTA with China as well and Japan's reaction would have more relevance, but...

Chinese stock market: RMB to USD Not sure about what indicators would the Korean automakers have, but how is the Chinese stock (which went up after TPP is announced) and RMB to USD ratio (I assume you mean RMB to USD) which has a long term upward trend related to a investor right bill which...

I have been looking around for the past few days----does anyone actually have the specifics on TPP's deal? Because I have been looking around the web and best I have found was actually promises and areas to be negotiated instead of the actual deal itself. The information available so far...

So...800%+ total debt is less than China's 207% as quoted by your article? The way I see it, there are two ways for you to justify your statement, either you argue 800% is less 207% or you argue United States is not a major country. Take your pick.

Yeah, and the fact remains that your statement of China was more indebt than other countries is plain wrong.

No it isn't. State Debt Ranking Percent GDP for 2016 - Charts This is just local and state debt alone in US at the current fiscal year. Which comes to be 813.48% of the GDP. Of course, I won't bother with Japan where the public debt alone is in the 200% range. Local and state debt is also only...

Nope, accounting for local debt, China is still one of the lower ones because one of the most moronic thing these article do is comparing the total debt of China with only the government debt of other countries. What? You are surprised low saving nations like Europeans and US actually have a lot...

No shit? Low skilled refugee with limited work skill and limited command of the language isn't doing as well as the native born locals? Alert the press!

Which is why the whole developed/developing nation thing is a lot more complicated than people give it credit for. This is without getting into stuff like military strength, technological level which adds in even more complications.

This actually brought up a interesting point. Currently, GDP per capita is used as one of the main identifier of whether a country is developed or developing. This is rather misleading. Like you observed, Mexico actually has a very high GDP per capita, yet it clearly isn't performing well. Part...