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The article discusses the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) in American foreign policy and argues for its reinstatement. It highlights the economic gains, job creation, and policy leverage that joining the TPP could bring, particularly in countering China's rise. However, the article acknowledges the challenges of persuading the American public and Congress due to partisan gridlock and populist backlash. It also mentions the Biden administration's introduction of the Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) as an alternative, but suggests that active advocacy is needed to rally support for the TPP and pursue a coherent foreign economic policy. [Extracted from the article]

This article reconsiders the argument that as labor immigration policy opens, it must also become more restrictive in terms of immigrant rights. After discussing this tradeoff logic, positing a negative relationship between external (numbers) and internal (rights) labor migration policy, it then extends the underlying political model to show that when accounting for the lobbying pressure of firms seeking high skill labor, a very different expectation emerges. This political accommodation argument predicts a positive relationship between external and internal migration policy, or that policy related to labor immigration openness and immigrant rights should advance together, although not necessarily quickly or at the same rate. It then tests these competing propositions using a new dataset that sorts labor migration policy changes among 38 advanced industrial democracies from 1995 to 2016 into these two dimensions, finding a significant positive relationship between them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]