1998年亚洲金融风暴殷鉴不远。2011年末,美国在亚太经合组织会议上,似乎威风八面,和澳大利亚、文莱、智利、马来西亚、新西兰、秘鲁、新加坡、越南提出跨太平洋合作伙伴关系协定,该协定高调提出建立涵盖太平洋两岸的包含所有商品、服务的自由贸易区框架。吊诡的是,事实上,近年来最积极实施贸易保护政策的恰恰是美国,那么美国为何突然变了调子意图在太平洋 The Asian financial turmoil in 1998 is not far behind. At the APEC meeting in late 2011, the United States appeared to be prestigious and proposed an agreement with the United States, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore and Vietnam on the Trans-Pacific Partnership. The high-profile agreement proposed to establish a cross-Pacific partnership that covers both sides of the Pacific Free trade area framework for all goods and services. Paradoxically, in fact, the most active trade protection policy in recent years is precisely the United States, so why the United States suddenly changed its mind in the Pacific