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It's a good job some people remember this. At school, the entire Physics class would wait until I had pronounced before deciding how to respond to the teacher's question, a largely successful ploy but on at least one occasion they all got the 'wrong'* answer by following my lead.
The fork is closer to the tyre than the brake is. Any mud clearance gained by the curved brake arm is useless because the fork will already have scraped that mud off the tyre. On the other hand, MTBs have loads of fork clearance and usually a much bigger difference between tyre and rim width, so that curve in the brake arm could be beneficial.
I had to explain to somebody else the other day, if quality is equal (and I'd say the TRP is at least the equal of the Paul by any objective criterion), it is better for your local economy to buy the cheap imported manufactured good and spend the balance on local services**. However, it's not just the location of manufacture which makes the TRP cheaper, it's their decision to make it by a superior method which is more capital intensive but has lower unit costs as volume rises.
*in fact, I was right because I was considering a realistic situation whereas the teacher was trying to make a different point with an insufficiently explicit question
**In the case of Americans buying Taiwanese product, there is a double benefit as making Taiwan rich enough to carry the burden of her own defence costs would make it easier for the USA to stop subsidising them.