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Don't Assume The Worst Of Trump On Trade,obama Said In Peru, by Ayoemrys(m): 7:14am On Nov 20, 2016 |
President Obama said he doesn't expect
major changes in Latin American policy
under the Trump administration, and
urged people to "not make immediate
judgments" until the president-elect
puts his team together.
"Don't just assume the worst. Wait until
the new administration is in place, is
putting its policies forward, and then
you can make your own judgments,"
Obama told a group of 1,000 young
leaders from around the Americas in
Peru on Saturday.
"There are going to be tensions that
arise, probably more about trade more
than anything else," he said. But even
there, Obama said he's not convinced
Donald Trump would tear up trade
deals, as the president-elect promised
on the campaign trail. "Once they look
at how it's working, I think they’ll
conclude that it’s working both for the
United States and its trading partners."
Obama's comments Saturday, during
his final stop on what's scheduled to be
the last foreign trip of his presidency,
followed a pattern of trying to give
Trump space to adopt what Obama
hopes are more conventional policies.
In Europe this week, Obama reassured
allies Trump would maintain the U.S.
commitment to NATO, and he'll likely
have a similar message for Pacific Rim
leaders at the Asia Pacific Economic
Cooperation summit in Peru on Sunday.
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"How you campaign is not always the
same as how you govern," Obama said.
"When you’re campaigning, you're
trying to stir up passions. When you
govern, you have reality in front of you,
and you have to figure out how to make
this work."
On trade, for example, Obama said the
2009 Peru Trade Promotion Agreement
has benefited the United States by
ensuring that workers aren't undercut
by abusive labor practices in Peru, but
also allowing Peruvian workers to be
customers for U.S. products.
"We did it also because that will help lift
the wages and benefits and protections
that workers here in Peru have," he
said. "Then they have more money in
their pockets, then they go out an spend
that money, which is good for business
and everybody is better off."
Obama also met Saturday with the 11
other leaders from countries in the
Trans-Pacific Partnership, the trade
agreement in limbo now that its largest
signatory, the United States, appears
unlikely to ratify. But the White House
said Obama used the meeting to urge
the other countries to press forward on
"high-standard trade agreements." |
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