News: Australia says TPP not dead, despite Trump opposition, page-11

meanwhile china is doing something constructive in africa - might be worthy of a separate thread - which will open up massive trade opportunities - yes, china will require food..

powerchina, the chinese government owned entity, which built the 3 gorges dams in china, has signed an mou with some african countries to divert water from the congo river basin (where a lot of water just flows into the atlantic ocean), into lake chad (a drying water hole, in an adjacent basin)... the project will open up vast amounts of land for agriculture in a dry part of africa.

http://newparadigm.schillerinstitute.com/blog/2016/12/29/transaqua-dream-becoming-reality-africa/

a bit like an african version of the snowy mountains scheme - where water was diverted from going into the ocean, to watering the inland