How the National Security Council is trying to take over regulation of global data flows on the basis of what’s good for Big Tech
Trans-Pacific Partnership
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Train Wreck of a Trade Deal
Today on TAP: The Biden administration has to slow-walk a marquee agreement, the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework. That might even be a blessing in disguise.
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Will Katherine Tai Prevail Over the Corporate Undertow?
The U.S. trade representative is one of Biden’s most inspired appointees. She faces fierce resistance as she tries to carry out her president’s trade agenda.
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Vox and the Undertow of Corporate Democrats
Today on TAP: Dylan Matthews’s screed attacking Biden’s industrial policies got an assist from former Treasury official Kimberly Clausing.
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Big Tech Lobbyists Explain How They Took Over Washington
An amazing research paper unearths how the tech industry invented the concept of digital trade and sold it to government officials.
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Biden’s Successor to TPP Is a Boon for Big Tech
The Indo-Pacific Economic Framework seeks to prohibit forcing tech companies to share source code or store data locally.
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The World Doesn’t Care About TPP
The trade deal was never about curbing China or maintaining U.S. influence in Asia.
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Trade Politics and the Presidential Campaign
Why Clinton’s criticism of trade deals like the TPP should be taken with a grain of salt.
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Why the Democrats Need to Sink the TPP
The Trans-Pacific Partnership, coming before the party’s platform committee on Friday, is a nightmare for Hillary Clinton.
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How Tom Perez Embodies the Democrats’ TPP Rift
When it comes to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), Tom Perez is stuck between a rock and a hard place-or rather, between his current boss, President Barack Obama, and his potential future boss, Hillary Clinton. In his role as the U.S. labor secretary, Perez has gone to the mat for Obama as a prominent supporter of […]