Japanese PM's visit gives Trudeau chance to boast of strong trade alliance despite strain of U.S., China relationships
Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, left, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau walk in the Sicilian town of Taormina, Italy, Saturday, May 27, 2017. OTTAWA -- Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe's whirlwind visit to Ottawa this weekend offers the Liberal government a rare chance to trumpet a strong international alliance in the face of unyielding strain with its two top trading partners.
Abe and Prime Minister Justin Trudeau will celebrate their successful launch of the rebooted Trans-Pacific Partnership late last year -- the 11-country Pacific Rim trade alliance that was rescued after President Donald Trump withdrew the U.S. from it in January 2017, nearly killing it. Abe is to host the G20 summit in June and will join Trudeau at the G7 leaders' gathering in France in late August, and while Trump's seat at those two multilateral tables is guaranteed, continuing U.S. participation is no longer a given with its mercurial president.
"The Americans chose for their own reasons not to be part of that group," Carr said in an interview Saturday. "Our interest is to take advantage of the ratification of this agreement in our countries, to deepen the trading relationship, which we are already doing."
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