Hacker News Reader

> I don't fully understand what Obama's China plan was.

Built a strong United Front comprises of countries around China with the US at the top, especially the IP monopoly. While it takes a long time it will subliminally erode China's competitiveness. Quite similar to the plan to erode USSR's economy without a hot war between NATO and Warsaw's pact.

View on HN

That's what I assumed. Was the TPP that, or was there more to come? And if so, why was Hillary against it?

Trumps plan looks better on the surface but I think it is bigly flawed. To try to take them head on but not actually doing much. And he really hasn't even tried to crank them with the tarrifs.

Hillary was against it, I believe because it was issue du jour. If she had been elected instead, pretty sure TPP would have been rebranded but passed nonetheless.

Reply on news.ycombinator.com