{"id":20866,"date":"2015-06-05T06:00:32","date_gmt":"2015-06-04T20:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/?p=20866"},"modified":"2015-06-05T08:36:38","modified_gmt":"2015-06-04T22:36:38","slug":"the-hard-power-of-the-trans-pacific-partnership","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aspistrategist.ru\/the-hard-power-of-the-trans-pacific-partnership\/","title":{"rendered":"The hard power of the Trans-Pacific Partnership"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a><\/p>\n Consider the Trans-Pacific Partnership as an economic hard power weapon.<\/p>\n The TPP can’t deal out death like the US 7th Fleet. But a lot of the language used about the TPP is more geopolitics than geoeconomics.<\/p>\n The TPP is an attempt to shape Asia’s strategic environment, a hedging device and a major expression of the US rebalance. The TPP is about boosting US power and excluding China’s power. The TPP is zero sum – members are supposed to win and non-members miss the benefits. Plenty of hard power in all that.<\/p>\n As previously argued, the TPP is about who rules and who writes the rules<\/a>.<\/p>\n