job, we ve lost 40,000 more jobs since its passage. no response from anybody on the panel from thap. cohen also said trade agreements like the tpp have wiped out entire industries in this country. we can take telecome equipment. there s no telecome commit made in the country at all, yet what do we have today? we have beg labs, we have western electric, we had lucent. every one of those hundreds of thousands of jobs is gone. yet we re the biggest consumer of those products. and yet china was with state owned enterprises and european companies promoted by their nations are thriving. oh, yeah. he said we re the biggest consumer of those products. we re a big customer. you mean to tell me that we can t play hardball at the table when it comes to trade agreements? if there s a big customer in the room, don t you want to do business with him? we re giving up. we re giving way too much. we re not protecting our workers.
discussions, like japan, canada, mexico all expressed an interest in beginning the consultations to be part of this high standard trade agreement that could potentially be a model for the entire region. now, china says, we want to consult with you about being part of this as well. we welcome that. it will require china to rethink some of its approaches to trade. just as every other country that s been involved in the consultations for the tpp have had to think through what kinds of adjustments are we willing to make? and so that s the consistent theme here. this is a growing region. it is a vital region. the united states is going to be