Wendy Cutler is vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute. She is a former acting deputy U.S. Trade Representative, where she had responsibility for the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
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US return to Pacific trade deal makes more sense than ever
Rejoining CPTPP would provide an important boost to US strategy on China
Trump shows the executive order withdrawing from the TPP in January 2017: the Trump administration's go it alone approach had limited success in reining in China's unfair trade practices. © Getty Images
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