Armstrong, ShiroKing, Amy2025-05-202025-05-201839-0242https://hdl.handle.net/1885/733750473President Donald Trump's executive order to withdraw the United States from the 12-member Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) economic agreement in the Asia Pacific is a strategic turning point in the open economic order. It is a blow to furthering reform for some members, a lost opportunity for the United States to write the rules of international commerce, and more worryingly a sign of the United States turning its back on the global economic system it helped create and lead.application/pdfen-AU© East Asia Forum 2017https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/2017-02-192023-11-26Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 4.0 International.