Most say that Japan, India, the U.S., Taiwan, Canada and other nations with the rule of law in the CPTPP remain the best trade option in the Asia-Pacific.
As long as Biden upholds Trump’s confrontational approach, the phase one accord will be fundamentally unworkable, and further progress toward a mutually beneficial trade relationship will be all but impossible. Bilateral trade could even collapse.
There can be no “returning” to the past, but only adaptation of U.S. objectives and strategies to current conditions. The sooner Biden’s foreign-policy team recognizes this, the better.
There is hope that under President Biden, there would be a change in American policy toward Zimbabwe, given the various reforms that have so far been implemented.