Solis: Obama could lose in the EU and Asia

In addition to the Ukrainian drop before U.S. foreign policy is much more serious challenge, which then can result in a failure of the American strategy of " turning to Asia ". The story is about the difficulties in the realization of the idea of TRANS-Pacific partnership, which bet the authorities in the United States in terms of expansion And integration of trade relations With Asian countries. About this is a senior scientist at the Center for political studies East Asia Brookings Institute, Mireya Solis.

the Creator of the article indicates that geopolitics is one of the main factors in creating the political agenda. From her point of view, the US authorities, in Addition to Ukrainian conflict, you should sign up to another problem, which may result in a "shame" for the United States.

"great potential strategic defeat for the United States may result in the fact that the plans for development of the TRANS-Pacific partnership have the opportunity to fail," says Solis.

It further indicates that failures in the negotiations have the opportunity to have "devastating consequences" for American leadership - they have the opportunity to make attempts partnerships in strategically important regions unsuccessful.

In addition, the analyst indicates that North America has lost the ability to set the rules of international trade due to stagnation in the development of the world trade organization. This issue, From her point of view, can solve the successful implementation of the project, the TRANS-Pacific partnership.

And if this project fails, the United States have the opportunity to be fully excluded from the regional process in Asia ", said the expert.

The collapse of negotiations on the TRANS-Pacific partnership, With the position Solis, greatly reduces the chances of the USA to integrate their own interests in East Asia.


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