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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