cut off so there s a tendency to put emphasis on balance relations and on security elations and the u.s. has been forced to stick to the security relations by its asian allies well thank you so much for putting it into context for us professor howard levin and asia expert and professor at the university of erlanger in germany we appreciate it thank you much. so over to monica jones now because president trump talking trade what a topic it is monica i m very curious to hear what he s going to say sara because there are a lot of people sitting at this apec summit who were interested in the transpacific partnership and that particular trade deal or t p p could be sealed today almost a year after the united states announced it was quitting the pact a trade ministers from the remaining eleven nations signed up to the pact have been holding talks on the sidelines of apec forum taking place in vietnam now t.p. of course has been the years in the making its purpose was to bring pacific nations
i m sorry kelly welcome to the program u.s. president donald trump has arrived in vietnam where he will outline his vision for trade ties with asia he will be speaking to asia pacific leaders at the apec summit but trump s america first policy could make him the odd man out as the region pushes ahead with a free trade deal with out the united states it comes after a meeting with chinese president xi jinping in beijing she will also address the forum and is expected to reiterate china s willingness to replace the u.s. as the leader in global free trade. and for more we re joined now by howard lovin an asia expert at the university of erlang in nuremberg in germany thanks so much for being with us this morning we ve heard that trump is expected to outline the future u.s. role in the region what do you think that we re likely to hear well we definitely will hear something from him about the trade relations that have to be enhanced