more important than eight australian submarines, which will begin to be deployed 19 years from now. don't take my word for it. ash carter, obama's defense secretary said in 2015 -- >> p ctp is important to me as another aircraft carrier. >> josh campbell, the white house policymaker in asia, went further that same year -- >> if we did everything right in asia and not get tpp, we can't get a passing grade. we can do everything wrong, cancel meetings, assault inadvertently led leaders and get ttp, and we have a b. >> what mr. campbell was right? go to cnn.com/fareed for a link to my "washington post" column this week. and let's get started. ♪ paris' reaction to the aukus