Great News for Vietnam, It Can Still Get Almost All the Gains Promised by the TPP!

The Washington Post shamelessly uses both its news and opinion pages to push trade agreements. It famously even lied about Mexico's GDP growth to tout the benefits of NAFTA, absurdly claiming it had quadrupled between 1987 and 2007 (the actual figure was 83 percent, according to the International Monetary Fund).

Given this background, it's not surprising to see a piece that bemoaned the fact that Vietnam will not be able to get the large gains from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) projecte...