Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and his Vietnamese counterpart Nguyen Xuan Phuc affirmed Tuesday in Tokyo they will work together so that the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement can take effect rapidly.While the leaders put the agreement on paper in the form of a joint statement on their "broad strategic partnership" released after the meeting, the statement did not indicate that Abe and Phuc had reached a consensus on whether they want the TPP to take effect without the United States, which pulled out of the pact in January."Amid a current of protectionism and anti-globalization, …READ FULL ARTICLE
