On how the US election will impact Asia, Dean of NTU’s College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Dr Joseph Liow and Research Adviser at RSIS said the region as a whole will suffers because of the fixation of the Trump administration on trade deficits and bilateral trade deals. For example, the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which includes countries such as Malaysia, Singapore and Vietnam, aims to deepen ties among the participating nations and help open up trade in goods and services. But by abandoning the free trade deal shortly after his inauguration in 2017, Trump has distanced the US from East Asia.