NSTnation: “It’s not appropriate for Asean to send leaders when the US representation is not on parity.”
Just three leaders from the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations showed up to the session, along with a host of foreign ministers.
“It’s not appropriate for Asean to send leaders when the US representation is not on parity,” one diplomat in Bangkok told AFP. At other events during the summit, members have rallied against protectionism amid fears of dragging global growth made worse by the US-China trade war. The US withdrawal “was a very strong symbolic act and the trend is continuing,” said analyst Alex Holmes from Capital Economics.The TPP has since been reborn as a watered-down version without the US, eclipsed by a China-backed agreement that is slated to be the world’s biggest when finalised.
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