Certainly, the agreement's not designed to prevent anyone, anywhere, doing anything, other than fostering trade.
I do have a few notes on this, which I will just refer to.
As I said, the TPP was not negotiated with the intent of opposing any or containing any country. In fact, it's open architecture allows other members to join. I know the Japanese ambassador mentioned that, as well.
China has expressed an interest in the TPP and is also involved in negotiations with our Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership again. Of course, Australia only just signed an FTA with China in the last four months and we're moving ahead in our own bilateral arrangement there. But the RCEP involves Australia and a number of TPP parties, including Singapore, Vietnam, Malaysia, and Brunei, as well.
In Australia's view, the TPP and RCEP present complementary pathways to the realization of APEC's long-term economic goals. But it's certainly not designed, from our perspective, to contain or to hedge against any particular country.