. >> thank you reiko. so basically the next president is completely opposed to the tpp. this is bad news for japan, isn't it? >> yeah. i agree with you. i think this is really a good opportunity for japan and other countries, including the united states, to establish very high quality, high standard, good international trade system for the 21st century. but you know, given the election of mr. trump, it might be very hard for u.s. congress to ratify it unless they do it by the end of this year. chances might be pretty small. and tpp has also some national security implications. because we don't like to see state-owned companies, military-owned companies in china making money, you know, abroad, and using some of the profits for their military expansion. and under the tpp, that would not be for them to -- it would be pretty difficult for them to do that. so in that sense too, this is very good opportunity. so i'm not sure when the good time -- the chance for us to -- time will come but this might bring a great disappointment -- disappointing result. >> seems like there's un