For the first time in the Asia-Pacific, if TPP happens, we will have a group of nations that have consented to join their economic destinies together under commonly agreed, enforceable rules with America at its center.
Malinowski emphasizes the strategic importance of TPP in uniting nations economically.
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What we are talking about is simply basic human rights that everybody in the world enjoys.
If we did that, either the police would come and arrest us again to get a bribe, or if they arrested the terrorist, someone would bribe him out and then he would come and kill us.
There is a sense of doubt among many of our partners in the region about whether the United States is--not only about whether we are going to go through with TPP, but with respect to our overall posture in the Asia-Pacific.
when a democratic experiment arose in Ukraine, Russia acted against a sovereign state to stop it, leading not just to a human rights crisis, but to a threat to global order.
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