the ideal was to do it in apec. that was the initial motivation for apec, trade liberalization in the asia pacific. initially china was not in but china came in early after two or three meetings. and you want to have free trade in the asia pacific including all these countries but honestly speaking, i think even with a very great ambition, that's too hard to do straight away because if you wanted to have japan china, america, and all the other countries in just the first three would keep you busy reconciling the difficulties before the rest of us got a word in so it's not going to happen but you do want to move and you can move piecemeal and then it's messy, it's overlapping, but it covers the ground and hopefully our grandchildren or children will have the wisdom and basis on which to take the next step and rationalize simplify, expand and make a less imperfect cooperation. so the t.p.p. is one big part of what's happening in asia pacific but there are other pieces, as well. there's this thing called a regional com

the ideal was to do it in apec. that was the initial motivation for apec. trade liberalization in the asia-pacific. initially china was not in, but china came in pretty early after two or three meetings. you want to have a trade, free trade in the asia-pacific including all these countries but honestly speaking, i think even with a very great ambition hard to do straight away. if you want japan, china, america, and all the other countries, just the first three would keep you busy reconciling their difficulties before the rest of us got a word in. so it is not going to happen. but you do want to move and you can move piecemeal. and then it is mess sir, it is overlapping but it covers the ground. hopefully our children and grandchildren will have the wisdom to take the next step and rationalize, simplify and expand, make a less imperfect cooperation. tpp is one big part of what is happening in asia-pacific. there is the economic partnership which cover as lot of countries on the western side of the pacific including china, japan and korea. china and korea are

the ideal was to do it in apec.t was the initial motivation for apec, trade liberalization in the asia pacific. initially, china was not in, but china came in pretty early after two or three meetings. and you want to have free trade in the asia pacific including all these countries but honestly speaking, i think even with a very great ambition, that's too hard to do straight away because if you wanted to have japan, china, america, and all the other countries in just the first three would keep you busy reconciling the difficulties before the rest of us got a word in. so, it's not going to happen but you do want to move and you can move piecemeal and then it's messy, it's overlapping, but it covers the ground and hopefully our grandchildren or children will have the wisdom and basis on which to take the next step and rationalize, simplify, expand and make a less imperfect cooperation. so, the t.p.p. is one big part of what's happening in asia pacific but there are other pieces, as well. there's this thing called a re