"At the end of the day I don't think Congress wants to be responsible for handing the keys to the castle to China." Failure to ratify the U.S.-led sweeping trade pact TPP would hand China "the keys to the castle" on globalization and do nothing to solve the real problems underlying American anxiety over jobs, the top U.S. trade official said Thursday. U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman speaks to reporters after a meeting with Japan's Economics Minister Akira Amari in Tokyo April 19, 2015. "You don't get to vote on the next generation of robots," he said, "you get to vote on trade agreements". U.S. President Barack Obama wants the TPP passed this year.

Source: Thanhnien News July 29, 2016 07:52 UTC