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Can free trade and TPP survive rise of the 'new right'?

  • Written by The Conversation Contributor

If there is one area on which the more extreme representatives of the political left and right can agree, it is the nefarious character of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the comprehensive trade deal signed last month by President Barack Obama and the leaders of 11 other Pacific nations.

Republican front-runner Donald Trump calls TPP “a...

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