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Trading Places: TPP and the US Bid to Stay on Top

What will the Trans-Pacific Partnership mean for global trade?

It is probably the biggest trading deal you will never have heard of - the Trans-Pacific Partnership or TPP. As leaders prepare to negotiate this new trade deal for the Asia Pacific region, why is President Obama so determined that the US will be part of it when it is so unpopular with his voters? If he is trying to counterbalance Chinese power in the region, will it work? And what will TPP mean for businesses and consumers the world over?

Manuela Saragosa and a host of distinguished guests, including the man who once advised George W. Bush and who is now with the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace; Ashley Tellis, the Chief Strategist at Silvercrest Asset Management and Patrick Chovanec; Evan Greer of Fight for the Future, a US campaign opposing TPP. And, to consider the Chinese perspective on TPP, from Manchester in the UK, the economist and academic Dr Xiaobing Wang.

(Photo: A banner reads 'Danger TPP coming'. Credit: AFP)

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