wikileaks | On 13 November 2013 WikiLeaks released the draft text
of the crucial Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPP) Intellectual
Property chapter during the lead-up to a TPP chief negotiators’ meeting
in Salt Lake City on 19-24 November 2013. Today, 9 December 2013,
WikiLeaks has released two more secret TPP documents that show the state
of negotiations as the twelve TPP countries began supposedly final
negotiations at a trade ministers’ meeting in Singapore this week.
One document describes deep divisions between the United States and
other nations, and "great pressure" being exerted by the US negotiators
to move other nations to their position. The other document lists,
country-by-country, the many areas of disagreement remaining. It covers
intellectual property and thirteen other chapters of the draft
agreement. This suggests that the TPP negotiations can only be concluded
if the Asia-Pacific countries back down on key national interest
issues, otherwise the treaty will fail altogether. Fist tap Dale.
