Still a long way for TPPA


It is a certainty that the ongoing Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement (TPPA) talks will be among the topics of discussion between Prime Minister Datuk Seri Najib Razak and US President Barack Obama when the latter arrives today on a three-day visit following stops in Japan and South Korea.

The TPPA forms part of the United States’ “pivot to Asia” policy, which Obama presented in a speech to the Australian parliament in November 2011 although the origins of this strategy was first articulated in an October article by then Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in Foreign Policy magazine.

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