Trump's promise to abandon the Trans-Pacific Partnership could be a boon for China

Thomson Reuters Free trade advocates hoping against hope that President-elect Donald Trump might change his mind regarding the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal had those hopes shattered Monday night. In his first substantive policy announcement since winning election on Nov. 8, Trump announced that withdrawing from the deal would be his first order of business after his inauguration. The deal, negotiated over nearly a decade by the U.S. with 11 partners around the Pacific Rim (notably exclud...