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Some administration officials defend trade pact as national security policy
The Democratic Party’s civil war on trade has taken a sudden national security turn.
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said President Obama’s Pacific trade deal was as important to the military as a new aircraft carrier.
Former State Department official Kurt M. Campbell warned that U.S. diplomacy in Asia would earn a failing grade if the pact, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), perishes in Congress.
“The Asia-Pacific is the single most dynamic part of the globe today and where much of the history of this century will be written,” Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Tuesday during a speech on the trade at a Boeing plant near Seattle. “There’s a need for American leadership.”
Defense Secretary Ashton B. Carter said President Obama’s Pacific trade deal was as important to the military as a new aircraft carrier.
Former State Department official Kurt M. Campbell warned that U.S. diplomacy in Asia would earn a failing grade if the pact, known as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), perishes in Congress.
“The Asia-Pacific is the single most dynamic part of the globe today and where much of the history of this century will be written,” Secretary of State John F. Kerry said Tuesday during a speech on the trade at a Boeing plant near Seattle. “There’s a need for American leadership.”
Some administration officials defend trade pact as national security policy
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