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Image:    Trying to bully and browbeat / Thomas Nast.  James G. Blaine as rhinoceros to Perry Belmont as badger: "I hope you will treat me as a gentleman. I am not in a police court to be badgered".   Illus. in: Harper's Weekly, v.26 (1882 May 13), Cleo Paskal, a nonresident senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, and Gordon Chang: @GordonGChang, Daily Beast, in re: India not joining RCEP (The Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership):  Decision foreshadowed by Chinese predation in the Himalaya.  The question is, why would Japan join? Probably because it has a new PM, and the Japanese trade lobby got its way. Looking forward: a deep understanding in India that economics with China is never just economics—also, strategic and military; ignoring a treaty is part of unrestricted warfare. The Chinese Communist Party is trying to shame India into joining RCEP; India’s political classes see all this clearly.  The whole Indian population mistrusts China now, so it's not just a BJP move.  Chinese elite thought it could get away with the predations of Ladakh; China is learning slowly.  Revive the TPP?  In the old TPP, the US pharmaceutical sector demanded arrangements that would have destroyed the Indian pharmaceutical sector; so major revisions would be needed.    https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/economy/foreign-trade/rcep-indias-stance-unchanged-even-as-15-others-invite-it-as-observer-keep-door-open/articleshow/79236605.cms