{ "error": "", "type": "text", "title": "Secretary Pompeo's Interview With Lin Xueling of Channel NewsAsia - Trade", "slug": "secretary-pompeos-interview-with-lin-xueling-of-channel-newsasia-trade", "text": "
\"America is always going to be a great partner for Asia, Southeast Asia in particular. It\u2019s great to be back here in Singapore; I\u2019ve had fantastic meetings all day with my counterparts, talking about America\u2019s commitment to making sure that we had a free, fair, open Indo-Pacific. With respect to trade, that\u2019s what we\u2019re looking for too. We want every country to rise. We want each nation to have the opportunity to trade, to buy American goods, to sell goods into America. These are the things that President (inaudible). We are a radically free-trade country, and President Trump is enormously supportive of that. [...] What we\u2019re looking for is to remove barriers. This is what has \u2013 put in place over decades. There was tremendous unfairness in the system, and our administration is simply trying to put that balance there. The President has said clearly: zero tariffs, zero subsidies, zero non-tariff barriers. Sign us up, we\u2019ll take it. America is trying to reduce friction in the trading system. And when we do, we\u2019re confident that countries like here in Singapore and other places will thrive, as will America.\"
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