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Regarding President Obama’s November 17-20 junket to southeast Asia, Investors Business Daily (IBD) wrote:
So amid all the colorful and flirty photos from President Obama's first tour of Southeast Asia, what did he actually accomplish? As usual, he served himself politically in what was largely a Potemkin mission abroad.
While IBD’s assessment was of the more-sizzle-than-steak aspect of the trip, the president did manage to finesse the next huge trade agreement onto the fast track.
Ambitious and audacious even in his second term, President Obama adamantly insisted at the meeting in Cambodia that the TPP (and the FTAAP that would eventually be created by it) should be comprehensive — meaning, as the New Zealand Herald reports, that “no area is off limits and that all tariffs on all goods and services would need to be eliminated.”