Failure to ratify the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal would be a “major setback” for the standing of the US in Asia, Singapore’s deputy leader has said, underlining concerns in the region that America's Pacific pivot is in trouble.
America’s Asian allies fear the collapse of the deal will become an emblem of a US retreat from the Pacific.
Anxiety over China's mounting influence in Asia was compounded last week as the Philippine president Rodrigo Duterte announced his country’s “separation” from the US and warmer relations with Beijing.
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