In short, the US has moved to bring together all of the economies in the region that are worried about China’s beggar-thy-neighbor trade and exchange-rate policies. For the US, the eight other TPP countries, with a combined population of 200 million, constitute its fourth largest export market, behind only China, the European Union, and Japan.
简言之，美国正在试图团结该地区所有担心中国以邻为壑的贸易和汇率政策的国家。对美国来说，其他八个TPP国家总人口可达2亿，能够构成其仅次于中国、欧盟和日本的第四大出口市场。如果日本加入的话，TPP的重要性还能显著增加。