WASHINGTON, DC: Name a foreign-policy issue on which China and most of the rest of the world’s nations are struggling to keep up with a US initiative. If you guessed “free trade,” you’re correct.

In a season that has mostly brought reversals for Obama administration efforts abroad, the free-trade agenda keeps on chugging. The massive weight of the US economy creates incentives for cooperation with America, rather than resentment.

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