TPP and RCEP and Armadas and regions of influence
I'm trying to figure out how to use Blogger. Here's an email I sent to a f/Friend yesterday, following up from a face-to-face conversation the night before. I'm hoping to come back here and edit it, to make it more suitable as a blog post. Or delete it. Or whatever. ----- Hi R____ - Thanks for talking to me about naval vessels & geopolitics... :-) The new alliance / trade organization I was referring to was RCEP, which has only Asian nations, none from the Americas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regional_Comprehensive_Economic_Partnership TPP (which is now dead, or nearly so) excluded China, deliberately and strategically, and it does/did include those western South American countries you mentioned: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trans-Pacific_Partnership If I'm recalling the sequence of events correctly, RCEP was and is going forward largely under Chinese initiative, and has picked up steam since the US withdrew fro