WORLD 24H: Concerns about TPP

TPP helps to reduce tariffs and trade barriers for a variety of goods and services, including cars, medicines and dairy products. It also sets out the rules for labor issues and environmental protection and protection of intellectual property rights for multinational companies.

 

US Trade Representative Michael Froman said the agreement comes after seven years of tough negotiations: "We expected this historic agreement will promote economic growth, support for high-paying jobs ; promoting innovation, productivity and competitiveness, improve living standards and reduce poverty in our country; and promote transparency, good governance and strong protections for workers and the environment. "

 

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said the agreement is an opportunity to change his country's economy.

 

China, countries with economies in the world's second largest, has decided not to join the TPP because they want to pursue economic goals of their own. However, US officials said China would be welcome to become a partner whenever they thought it was time to do so appropriately.

 

TPP is an important victory for the foreign policy of President Barack Obama, although the agreement is unlikely to be approved by parliament. Many US lawmakers believe that TPP will make America lost jobs, the US market will be flooded with foreign products, the environment will be damaged and people's health would be threatened by the real unsafe imports.

 

However, spokesman Josh Earnest said the White House TPP will reduce 18,000 different taxes for US exports, more open world market for the products manufactured in the US and there are protection measures labor and most powerful environment than all global trade agreements ever.

 

Agreement needs to be the legislator of the participating countries through, including Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Japan, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the US and Vietnam.

 

Those advocating US-led pact to liberalize 40% of trade for the world economy, saying that the agreement should have to compete with the economic superpower China is growing.

 

 

 

But fans of the treaty did not oppose the participation of Beijing. They say if China join the treaty, the fair trade standards than would apply to the largest economy in the world.

 

Political science professor Koichi Nakano of Sophia University in Tokyo say that no country will join this agreement win or lose.

 

In Japan, the coalition of the Democratic Liberal Party Prime Minister Abe has enough votes needed in parliament to pass the TPP, but is likely to face opposition from the agricultural sector will have to compete beef with cheaper prices and other imported goods for tariff exemption or reduction.

 

But the auto industry in Japan is likely to benefit because they can use multiple parts of cars are manufactured in Asia to sell into the US market.

 

Australian Trade Minister Andrew Robb said the last time his country may double the amount of sugar exported to the US market, from the current level of 107,000 tons to 207,000 tons a.

 

New Zealand Prime Minister John Key said that lowering tariffs for 93% of exports mainly dairy products his country less than he expected, but overall is a positive agreement.

 

Manufacturers in countries with low labor costs such as Vietnam will benefit from being able to penetrate the US market and Japan but not be required to adhere to higher standards of labor and environment .

 

TPP will make the prices of some imported commodities higher as pharmaceuticals. According to TPP, pharmaceutical companies invent new biopharmaceutical products, which enjoy monopoly about 8 years before being competitive by the same products cheaper.

 

South Korea, which focus more on the free trade agreements bilaterally, called the treaty "a major economic framework for the Asia - Pacific region", and expressed his desire to join pact.

 

Thailand and the Philippines also consider joining the trade pact.

 

TPP Opponents argue that the agreement was negotiated in secrecy as TPP only benefit businesses but causing damage to the interests of the public.

 

Such as the TPP include an agreement on the dispute settlement system between the state and investors allowing foreign investors can sue local governments on regulations to reduce their profits. That system is called ISDS.

 

The tobacco companies have used the system in a deal ISDS Australia-Hong Kong investors to sue the Australian government to abandon the safety warning by state regulations to print clear images of cancer on packaging cigarette.

 

But US Trade Representative said in a statement that the TPP special attention to "the public health issues related to tobacco and reserves the right of the US and other countries join TPP provisions of laws tobacco ",

 

Cynics like Professor Nakano said that workers' rights will not be protected strictly as the rights of businesses in the agreement. "Although at this stage we are told that this is a victory for workers around the world, including in developing countries, that so far not been reflected in the negotiation process ".

 

In Asia as in America, Professor Nakano said, TPP will boost economic growth but will also increase the range of difference in income, caused public outrage and opposition to globalization and capitalism.

 

Russia-US began in Syria in collaboration?

 

On 6/10, Deputy Defense Minister Anatoly Antonov Russia notified the military agreed in principle with the US proposal concerning the coordination of military flights in Syria.

 

Mr. Antonov said Russia's Defense Ministry has invited foreign military officers to Moscow to coordinate activities in the fight against IS group in Syria.

 

He added that members of the military alliance in the US-led air strikes ongoing in Syria should be transferred to the Russian intelligence on the base of IS.

 

The same day, spokesman Dmitry Peskov Kremlin insisted all Russia's actions in Syria are aimed towards a political solution to the conflict in the Middle Eastern countries, while emphasizing that it certainly is not just items The objective of the international community that the leadership of Syria.

 

On 6/10, the Chairman of Russian Federation Council Valentina Matviyenko also made clear that Russia has no political agenda yet in Syria, and stressed Russia convinced no other solution to the crisis in Syria, unless a political solution can maintain the unity and stability of Syria.

 

Meanwhile, US Secretary of Defense Ashton Carter declared the Russian leaders to communicate directly with the Pentagon about the new talks involving Moscow's activities in Syria. He also reflected concerns about abuses Turkish airspace of Russian aircraft.

 

Meanwhile, TASS news agency quoted NATO Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg informed about the presence of Russian infantry at the air base in Syria.

 

However Mr Stoltenberg refused stating the specific number of troops Russian Armed Forces in Syria.

 

Meanwhile, the date 6/10, Defense Committee Chairman of Russian State Duma, Admiral Vladimir Komoyedov confirmed it would not carry out the campaign in Syria that have the participation of the Russian infantry forces.

 

There was another shock for the world track

 

In an appearance on British television Wednesday 5/10, Edward Snowden confirmed that British intelligence had invested a lot for a program to eavesdrop mobile phone, with extraordinary functionality.

 

Snowden revealed a secret training program at the British intelligence agency GCHQ (Government Communications Headquarters The), with much documentation.

 

The program, codenamed "Schtrumpfs" characters like elves in the story of artist Peyo. If the name amusing, action capability of the software Schtrumpf gave people chilling, as explained by Edward Snowden told the BBC: "Software Schtrumpf-dreamer, able to turn on and turn off portable computers you, but you do not know. Software 'Schtrumpf curiosity' eavesdropping function perfectly. For example, when your phone is in your pocket, this program still allows activating the microphone, and recorded sound is all around you ".

 

However, the strength of the aforementioned eavesdropping program does not stop there. Software "Schtrumpf pursuit" allowing someone to follow, with extremely high accuracy, while "Schtrumpf paranoid" allows protecting the eavesdropping program, if such a user that wants Fixed telephone, because there is suspicious feeling.

 

Snowden Edword not mean to say that the British intelligence agency GCHQ and America's NSA eavesdropping advocated personal communication on a large scale, but he warned that these two agencies have invested a lot, so maybe break into any smart phone war.

 

Currently GCHQ declined to comment on this information, but the revelations of former US security personnel again embarrassing for Cameron government, which from the beginning has refuted these illegal activities such.

 

                                                                                                               Source: Alternative Energy (According to AP, BBC, AFP)