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U.S. is becoming the global leader and is now dominating TPP. Nowadays, U.S. wants to combine with countries that involved TPP to put pressure on other agreements or on the other countries that are not involved, both strategic dimension and economic dimension. In this paper, I will briefly discuss with TPP versus RCEP and TPP versus China.

the tpp is foucs on the preferential trade agreement with few exemptions and extensive regulatory alignment, in the area such as labor law, environmental protection and intellectual property rights.

RCEP stands for the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership. This is a newly proposed free trade treaty coming out of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN). RCEP include all fifteen Asia countries, plus China, India, Japan, South Korea, New Zealand and exclude the US.

Obama has deliberately excluded China, the world’s second largest economy, from TPP. Why? Because the US is engaged in a trade war with China and doing everything possible to isolate China