[x-pubpol] Prominent politicians and negotiators in poor countries speak out against TPP

[Joly MacFie]

http://boingboing.net/2013/07/31/prominent-politicians-and-nego.html

The Trans-Pacific Partnership is a sweeping, secret global treaty that sets
out many corporatist policies by which countries surrender their national
interest and sovereignty in favor of corporations, who get to violate local
regulations and rules and sue countries that try to enforce them. A lot of
the opposition to TPP has centered on its insane copyright provisions
(leaked TPP drafts have included things like mandatory border-searches of
laptops and phones for pirated music and movies; as well as "three-strikes"
rules like the failed French HADOPI system, whereby whole families would be
disconnected from the Internet if their router was linked to
unsubstantiated claims of piracy). But increasingly, the participating
countries are growing nervous with the whole premise of
TPP.<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130727/05443723968/discontent-with-secrecy-one-sided-nature-tpp-spreads-among-participating-nations.shtml>

For example, the former Prime Minister of Malaysia published a
post<http://www.thestar.com.my/Opinion/Columnists/Along-The-Watchtower/Profile/Articles/2013/07/17/discord-over-secret-talk.aspx>
where
he called TPP "a partnership of the unequal, of the strong to take
advantage of the weak." And Chile's former chief TPP negotiator wrote a
newspaper editorial where he said, "It is a threat to our countries. It
will restrict our options for development in health and education, in
biological and cultural diversity, design of public policies and the
transformation of our economies."

Discontent With Secrecy And One-Sided Nature Of TPP Spreads Among
Participating Nations<http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130727/05443723968/discontent-with-secrecy-one-sided-nature-tpp-spreads-among-participating-nations.shtml>
[Glyn
Moody/Techdirt]

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