I mean, this is not--my understanding of the region is that most, if not all, of the countries would like stronger integration with China.
Our values of openness allow them to invest, the Chinese to invest here, but when we try to reciprocate there are all ki...
Because their wages should be increasing and sometimes they are not, because the conditions are not very good.
We are going to negotiate to get a high quality, high standard agreement, and that is what we are still after.
This is an order that I think has benefited not just these countries, by the way, but the Chinese people, for whom acces...
But while open trade has benefited the Chinese people, the Chinese Communist Party is not all that enthusiastic about ex...
Asia today accounts for about 33 percent of U.S. trade.
It will be critical to bringing home and implementing this agreement once it is finally negotiated.
We have a dictator with nuclear weapons who has just executed his uncle.
But again, our official policy is we do not recognize the zone and by and large we are going to ignore it?
There are extraordinary opportunities to which we need to pay close attention.