Donald Trump or Kamala Harris: America’s trade strategy in Asia will not change

Donald Trump’s triumph in the 2016 US presidential election fundamentally changed the way economic policy strategists in East Asia and the Pacific had to think about the US role in the global trade regime.

They had to get used to the idea that a new regional economic order would have to be based on the assumption that the United States would not be a partner in East Asian regionalism or show leadership in trade and global economic governance for at least the next decade. several presidential terms.

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