without a college education, blue-collar workers. some of those jobs have gone away i think trump has picked up on the sentiment. those people feel forgotten. let me also add with regard to the tpp that has now gone away that s history. that is 40% of the global marketplace. 40%. what we are doing is saying china, you go ahead and make your own deals in that part of the world. the united states, we will not have access to the rising middle class, growing consumer population in that part of the world. let me quickly respond. the deal with trade partnerships, especially when you are the country that we are, the biggest consumer in the world of all these goods. that is an asset. when you are doing these grand deals with many countries, you lose that opportunity to negotiate one-on-one. if i were to come in the room and say you guys, i want to make a deal with all of you, i don t have a chance. i can cut better deals dealing
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been the theme of the entire trip, showing more rhetorical confrontation with china, and this is one of the few actions being taken on this trip. everything else has been negotiations about potential trade partnerships. this is a specific action, in this case, having a u.s. military outpost here in australia, will become a permanent outpost with a rotation of troops. this is if the region, this is about the china, the south china sea in particular, and it s something that a lot of the southeast asian democracies are concerned about with china s rising regional military presence, not just as a global economic leader but a regional military power as well, and so they want the united states, in this case, to be somewhat of a counter weight to china in that respect. earlier as i was telling you, this entire trip, whether it s what s coming up when we go to indonesia, or what it was in