I put out a paper on migration called the Menendez Plan. It recognizes that there are 20 million people in the Western Hemisphere--20 million--who are displaced refugees or seeking asylum in other countries.
Menendez highlights the scale of displacement in the Western Hemisphere.
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If we do not have a robust trade agenda in the Pacific Island countries that they will not by desire, maybe, but by default ultimately deal with the Chinese.
The urgency of climate change; there is a lot more that we should be doing as it relates to climate change.
Without market access I think that we are going to be at a competitive disadvantage with China.
So is it also fair to say that since China is the economic force within that region that we are challenged in terms of our own national interests in meeting that economic force with one that can compete with it?
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