Revamped Trade Pact Could Emerge as America’s Monument to Its Great Friend Shinzo Abe

The Japanese leader loved the United States and was a tireless promoter of alliances between free countries.

AP/Carolyn Kaster, file
Prime Minister Abe and President Obama at Tokyo, April 23, 2014. AP/Carolyn Kaster, file

The assassination of Shinzo Abe of Japan is reminder that President Trump’s worst policy move was killing the Trans Pacific Partnership on his third day in office. The trade deal, conceived with the help of the era’s most visionary world leader, Prime Minister Abe, would have become a major tool to confront Communist China. 

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