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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump has moved quickly against free-trade deals that he says are hurting American workers -- but in the process he risks dismantling a key pillar of US national security.
In his first week on the job, Trump has withdrawn the US from the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade pact and called for the North American Free Trade Agreement to be renegotiated and perhaps abandoned.
Amid anger over job losses and concerns about sovereignty that helped fuel Trump's victory, lawmakers in districts hurt by trade and labor unions celebrated the news.
But beyond the economic consequences -- which many TPP proponents argue will be negative for the US -- the moves shake the foundations of the US global security architecture. American policy dating back to WWII has used multilateral trade agreements as a tool to strengthen US security and advance US leadership around the world.
The TPP was a central US weapon in a contest between Washington and Beijing to determine the economic architecture and standards in Asia, with the US advocating for a rules-based, transparent system. In that respect, the pact was different than other Asian multilateral groups the US belongs to because it established US norms and standards for the region.
"It's a huge missed opportunity and a huge blow to our credibility in Asia and beyond," said Matthew Goodman, a senior advisor for Asian economics at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "Strategically, we've been in Asia for 75 years, providing stability, predictability and enabling prosperity, keeping the peace and allowing people to trade, now people are saying, 'Are we reliable?' " Goodman said. "That's the strategic problem of pulling out of TPP."
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