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Peru: enter the dragon?

By The Wildcat 30 November 2016
Peru’s President Pedro Kuczynski (right) welcomes China’s President Xi Jinping to the APEC summit in Lima. (PA)

Making America ‘great again’ has yet to begin, but the President-elect of the United States is already reshaping the South American Pacific.

Donald Trump vowed last week to withdraw from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) on the the first day of his presidency. The 12-nation trade pact was intended to ease the flow of goods among Pacific Rim countries. Trump called the TPP a "horrible deal" on the campaign trail, and he warned it would be the death knell for manufacturing in the US.

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