Anything that allows corporations to sue nations for changing laws is bad. That makes TTP bad, and as a European citizen, I hope TTIP suffers the same fate. I'm all for free trade, but these trade agreements seem to be mostly about other things.

I hate Trump but he may push towards an end to the idea that ' Globalization is all positive' narrative.

-There are far more financial experts in support of free trade than against. This is because:

-One of the most trivial conclusions of the Keynesian Theory (the basis for modern capitalism; offer and demand, productivity, etc...) is that the productivity of any single combined economic system C including A and B is higher than the sum of its parts; in other words, unifying two economies increases their total production of goods (thus, also how much people have), a direct consequence of market optimization and diversity.

The whole «the elites want it» thing sounds to me like a poorly justified conspiration theory (don't take it personnaly; I can be wrong, just my impression.)

What concerns cultural propagation:

That's not a consequence of a free trade agreement. Nonetheless, I personnaly believe that the spread and travel of culture strengthens it. Example: I'm a big fan of classical music (in case your tag means anything, at least that much in common :) I also like to play in my free time, did competitions and everything). Nowadays, the biggest market for classical music, and also a big pool of its talent, (Mitzuko Uchida, Yo-Yo Ma, Zubin Mehta, etc...) is in Asia, while the sector has been struggling for decades in the West. I'm grateful that these artists continue to add upon what our ancestors have produced. 

Some aspects, domains, have already been globalized. Science, for example. My father is a Mathematician, and German. He works in a University in Canada. His closer colleagues (in research distance) are a russian, an egyptian and a chinese. He is currently collaborating with a Japanese and a Serb working at an american university, a project that they started at a conference in China. 

And Mathematics are better for it; the people that work on specific questions are few and spread out arounf the globe, and it just makes sense for them to work together to get results. This is the same for most scientific domains. This has been in application for quite some time now, mostly because a PHD in Science or related domains is pretty much an international passport.

That's my point of view, anyway. It's probably fairly restrained, as I grew up in a very academicly centered environnement (thus getting the previously mentionned impression), without much difficulty in life (till now, anyways...). It could fully well be that things look very diffirent elsewhere; but from what I can see, opening borders is a good thing

Again, as I mentionned, corporations can only sue governments for being impartial, discriminatory depending on country of origin. You can ban smoking; you can't ban all European cigarette brands from competing, while allowing your own cigarette companies to prosper. You can put a carbon tax; you can't put a carbon tax on all foreign corporations, while imposing none on your own buisnesses. It's just a way to assure that trade truly stays free.

I'm pretty sure TTIP is going that way, if that makes you happy.

As an Australian losing the TPP, this will be a disaster for us

Australia already has a very open economy, virtually no tariffs, and many free trade agreements with other countries, this has allowed Australia to prosper even during the financial crisis of 2008

The US has had tariffs up against Australia's agricultural goods forever, the US currently subsidises its agriculture unlike Australia, Australian agriculture is sustainable and efficient, unlike the US system, without the TPP the US will only get worse in this regard, and even Australia will suffer due to the uneven playing field

The US is Australia's second largest economic partner behind China, the scraping of free trade (TPP) by the US will hurt us a lot, our ties with China will have to get stronger to compensate

There has being a endocrination on pushing globalization as a great idea in the last 20 years, your opinion does not surprise me. If you like see the other side of the argument, I encourage you to watch Bauman interviews.

Globalism is inevitable because of technology and capitalism. One global market means business operates on a global level, even Trump can talk all he wants about anti-globalism, but it's a sham, he himself has thousands of business ties everywhere across the globe.

Globalism isn't a "last 20 years" thing either, lol, read a bloody history book, this is what the Cold War was about, capitalism/free market-ism won, this is the world its created (some parts good, some parts not so good). 

Anyways to be honest I couldn't really give a shit about the TPP or any of this stuff, but from what I understand if TPP falls through it means China benefits big time and will be able to control more of economy in the Pacific, all those countries are going to look more towards China.

Business is not going to just say "OK, no TPP so we're not doing business here", it just means that China will gladly take their business and I'm sure they're quite happy to see the US potentially out.  

In reality Trump's advisers will probably sit him down and tell him this and he will probably just pass something similar to the TPP by tweaking a few things, rebranding it, and taking credit for it being the "best deal ever" in his usual sales-pitch style.

If that's the case, I'm OK with it. That's not what I've been hearing about TTIP so far though, but if it ends up that way, I'm fine with it. That said, rules often get interpreted pretty broadly, so even that's not entirely without problems. Actually screw that, I'm not OK with it. Protectionist laws should be handled as trade agreement violations instead of suing because of them. Private entities should not have any direct word in matters like this.

That's not true. Corporations can sue for pretty much anything that they deem would affect their bottom line. A good example of what would have happened is how tobacco companies are suing Australia for the plain packaging act. How is that discriminatory? It's not and yet they're still suing Australia. This is underr another trade treaty (AU and HK) but it would be similar.

You are USA 26th highest trading partner.  I believe you probably rely on China a lot more than United States.  According to this site 99% of exports of consumer and industrial goods are duty free.  I see no problem with our trade relations with Australia even with TPP falling through.

"Australia is currently our 26th largest goods trading partner with $35.3 billion in total (two ways) goods trade during 2013. Goods exports totaled $26.0 billion; Goods imports totaled $9.3 billion. The U.S. goods trade surplus with Australia was $16.8 billion in 2013."

https://ustr.gov/countries-regions/southeast-asia-pacific/australia#