How are the continuing attempts to delegitmize Bernie's campaign NOT "refighting the primaries"?

[Hekate]

73. Obama was/is oriented toward the Pacific & Asia, which I get, since I come from Hawai'i as well....

I studied Asia and the Pacific while an undergrad at University of Hawai'i, but young Obama and his mother actually lived in Indonesia. It gives one a different perspective on the world.

China is a major concern going into the future, and not because Trump keeps bellowing "Gina!" while having his crap made there. Trump has no clue about China's territorial ambitions.

I listened to Obama when he spoke about the TPP, and I believe I understand his intent, which is to get as many nations as possible to agree on certain things, and to rein in China. I could be completely wrong about my understanding, and he could have been completely wrong about the putative results of the TPP, but that is my take on it.

China is laying claim to chunks of the South Pacific by building naval/air stations on coral atolls by infilling them with sand and other materials. Claiming them as sovereign Chinese territory allows China to patrol the area and lay claim to the ocean around them. Here is one article I turned up for you, though I read all about it years ago in the Los Angeles Times. http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/07/30/world/asia/what-china-has-been-building-in-the-south-china-sea.html

China is also up in Tibet, as you know, and claims it as a Chinese province. They are engaging in cultural genocide, something that is without dispute. But in addition to that, they are in a race to dam the Brahmaputra River, which flows into India and is a major water source for an enormous region of South and Southeast Asia across several countries. I first heard about this by going to a public lecture by an exiled Tibetan senior lama, who was easily one of the sharpest people I ever heard speak. (I remember sitting bolt upright and almost saying aloud: Dam the Brahmaputra? Shit!) Sadly, I never caught his name, because I was dragged there by an acquaintance who thought we were going to have an evening of Om, instead of a lecture on international politics. I found what he had to say MUCH more interesting than that, but I couldn't "hear" or remember his name without seeing it in print. Here is the first article that popped up just now, so you have some context. http://theconversation.com/china-and-indias-race-to-dam-the-brahmaputra-river-puts-the-himalayas-at-risk-65496

I am by no means rich, but recognizing Obama's methods over the years as being those of patiently laying groundwork so that Step 1 leads to Step 2 and so forth, I don't think TPP was ever intended as a rich man's toy, but as Step 1 in something longer term. Given China's aggression and territorial ambitions, that would be a good thing.

I hope that helps.