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