Obama warns TPP failure would let China write trade rules

[TaiShang]

The next warning will be for the Europeans, if TTIP fails China will write the trade rules rather the US who should be the one making them for her allies

Basically what Obama does is to scare its partners into signing a trade pact (TTP-TTIP), explicitly stating that it is the US to naturally write trade rules, but not the combined "P" in the partnership schemes.

If I were Japan or Germany, I would take this as an insult.

Are they supposed to let the US write trade rules so that China would, hypothetically, not write trade rules?

 

[terranMarine]

Basically what Obama does is to scare its partners into signing a trade pact (TTP-TTIP), explicitly stating that it is the US to naturally write trade rules, but not the combined "P" in the partnership schemes.

If I were Japan or Germany, I would consider this an insult.

Are they supposed to let the US write trade rules so that China would, hypothetically, not write trade rules?

I hope EU will not sign TTIP, give the US another blow after signing for the AIIB membership lol
Japan had to give up a special offer from China just to appease the US. Germany is in a better position than Japan so hopefully more Germans would join the protest.