The reason I say this is that it's being used to exclude certain countries and it sets up rules that explicitly favor particular countries.
Given its strategic nature its role is to protect both Western powers and regional countries that want investment from the West and to grow against the rise of China.
Since it protects 40% of the world GDP at the explicit and planned sacrifice of other nations and because it is used to instantiate international laws that protect those same countries I call it protectionist. And if you look at the leaked memos it's really not so big a stretch. It's also been called protectionist by people not aware of its strategic value (e.g. Assange).
Given its strategic nature its role is to protect both Western powers and regional countries that want investment from the West and to grow against the rise of China.
Since it protects 40% of the world GDP at the explicit and planned sacrifice of other nations and because it is used to instantiate international laws that protect those same countries I call it protectionist. And if you look at the leaked memos it's really not so big a stretch. It's also been called protectionist by people not aware of its strategic value (e.g. Assange).