The triumph of Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election fundamentally changed how economic policy strategists in East Asia and the Pacific had to think about the US role in the global trade regime.

They had to get used to the idea that the new regional economic order would have to be founded on the assumption that the United States would not be a partner in East Asian regionalism or show leadership on trade and global economic governance, for at least the next few presidential terms.

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