Former Japanese negotiator: If Trump wants to be tough on China, he should join TPP

Rejoining the Trans-Pacific Partnership is the best way for the U.S. to address trade concerns with China, Akira Amari, a Japanese lawmaker who negotiated TPP, said on Wednesday. “Today the focus on TPP is about reducing [tariffs] very close to zero, and that is the focus of the current administration,” Amari, a member of the Liberal Democratic Party in Japan's House of Representatives, said via a translator at a Brookings Institution event in Washington, DC. “But actually, what is important...