Japanese official: Abe to continue making the case for TPP to the Trump administration

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe will continue to convey to President Trump his belief in the strategic and economic importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, according to a Japanese foreign affairs ministry official who noted last week that while the two leaders' approach to free trade in the Asia-Pacific may differ, their objectives do not. “I think what we needed is to share this understanding that we need to have a standard of the rules that will be adequate for the...