Obama has initiated a free trade deal, the Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement, which is designed to exclude China and integrate much of the rest of the Asia Pacific nations into a US trade bloc. On top of that, he is repositioning American forces away from the Middle East to the Asia..…

It was delayed until “a final round of French nuclear tests in the region were carried out, with British and American logistical and other assistance, despite objections from many Asia-Pacific nations.” ..…

With this new policy, he is dramatically reorienting American imperialism on the region most experts predict will be the hub of twenty-first century capitalism—the Asia Pacific. Obama continues to promise engagement with China to lure it into an international order under American..…

Under Article 10, differences between states “should be settled by recognized pacific methods.”   . Article 11 calls sovereign state territory “inviolable…” Other charters and agreements affirm non-intervention, including: . the Organization of American States; . ..…

Constrained by the treaty's provisions, United States has been prevented from deploying new weapons to China's efforts to cement dominant position in Western Pacific and keep American aircraft carriers at bay. ..…

Second, with respect to trade, progressives and conservatives need to ask themselves whether the United States was correct to sign the North American Free Trade Agreement and the Trans-Pacific Partnership. ..…