When President Donald Trump walked away from the Trans-Pacific Partnership, he set off a series of geopolitical recalculations across Asia.
The U.S. withdrawal from the TPP had widely been considered a political boon for China, and that has lead countries such as Japan to worry they’ll lose influence.
“Some Chinese officials saw the TPP as part of the new U.S. containment policy,” private bank Brown Brothers Harriman said in a note this week, pointing to similar American alliances with countries surrounding the Soviet Union.
