Enfim, sempre tem aqueles, neoliberais, que pretendem ingressar na Parceria Trans-Pacífica, mas felizmente também tem os que querem, e conseguem, proteger a soberania, construindo, por exemplo, o socialismo do século 21 e outras bobagens do século 19.
Assim vai o mundo, ou pelo menos a região....
Paulo Roberto de Almeida
Japan Likely to Embrace Free Trade Pact
The New York Times, November 9,
2012
TOKYO
— In a possible gambit to reverse his governing party’s flagging fortunes,
Prime Minister Yoshihiko
Noda appears likely to declare Japan’s
intent to join an ambitious pan-Pacific free trade agreement, then call a snap
election in which the party would campaign on that move.
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Major newspapers said on Saturday that support was
building in the Noda administration to announce Japan’s entry into the proposed
American-led regional agreement sometime in the next two months. The reports
said that move would be immediately followed by a decision to dissolve
Parliament for national elections that would take place a month later.
Japan has long wavered on entry into the pact, the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, which is opposed by the nation’s heavily protected
farmers but supported by consumers and industry groups. Because the reports
about the government’s intentions appeared in most major newspapers, it
suggested Mr. Noda’s Democratic Party had made a concerted effort to begin
signaling a change in strategy.
The state minister for national policy, Seiji Maehara,
has also said joining the agreement would become “a public promise by the
Democratic Party that should be a main issue in elections.”
Signing onto the pact is likely to please the United
States, which has urged Japan for the last two years to join the group as a way
to push the global economy out of its prolonged slump. News reports suggested
that the move would also be a way for the government to lash itself even closer
to the United States at a time when Japan is increasingly jittery about China’s
ambitions in the region. The reports described the likely decision to join the
pact as a domestic political gamble by the prime minister to prevent his party
from a humiliating loss in elections, which must be held before September.
The Democrats have been searching for a way to regain
public support after widespread criticism that they mishandled Japan’s response
to the Fukushima nuclear accident. Mr. Noda’s approval ratings have dropped
into the teens in recent polls.
When pressed by the opposition on his earlier promises
to hold elections “soon,” Mr. Noda has said only that he and other party
leaders would decide the timing when they were ready.
If he takes a clear stand on the trade pact, Mr. Noda
may be aiming to regain support among the Democrats’ base of urban white-collar
voters and union members. They are expected to welcome the lower prices and
increased exports that more open markets are likely to bring.
But such a move would also alienate farmers, one of
Japan’s most powerful bloc of voters. On Friday, about a half-dozen Democrats
said they might defect from the party if Mr. Noda were to back the trade deal.
Joining
the pact would also put the largest opposition party, the Liberal Democrats,
who currently lead in polls, in an uncomfortable political position. The
Liberal Democrats have avoided taking a clear stand on the agreement because
they have tried to keep the support of farmers and big business, traditionally
the party’s two biggest supporters. Mr. Noda may be hoping to hurt the
opposition by forcing it to pick one side, news reports said.
A version of this
article appeared in print on November 12, 2012, on page B5 of the New
York edition with the headline: Japan Likely To Approve Trade Pact.
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