This is a graphic and text rich site. Be patient downloading. It's worth it. No daily sensationalism here, just the stuff to keep you informed, alert, thinking, active. Negotiations have nothing to do with them.
Negotiations are protection of corporate markets.
There are other examples, but the most important case in point for the United States is China. Sure, China is a problem, but free trade will tie them to the rest of the world so much that they'll behave. Furthermore, this is our only shot for making them behave, because they're going to be too powerful for anything else we might do to matter. To enforce extreme free trade, ordinary bilateral agreements aren't enough. Call this Thomas Friedman militarism.