Obama’s Mission Impossible: Japan and the TPP
The success of President Obama’s swing through Japan on his Asia trip, he is supposed to have told Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in The Hague recently, would be measured by whether it delivered a satisfactory conclusion to the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations between Washington and Tokyo.
If so, the trip was an abject failure. There was no conclu…
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