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Australia’s ambassador: U.S. withdrawal from TPP not a move toward isolationism

June 16, 2017 at 5:45 PM
While U.S. trading partners are greatly disappointed by the Trump administration’s decision to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership -- and hoping for a change of heart in Washington -- Australia’s envoy to the U.S., Joe Hockey, this week said he did not consider the withdrawal a sign that the U.S. is turning its back on the Asia-Pacific. “I don’t see it as [a] move towards isolationism because the U.S., at a citizen-to-citizen level, at a business-to-business-level, is too integrated in...


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