As a result of free trade, global investment will be much more active among TPP nations, which will strengthen the economy. Since economic activity will be mixed with that of many other nations, nations will work for good relations between TPP nations because unnecessary collisions will damage the interdependent economic body. This works well geopolitically, as the current administration aims. Many of the nations signing the TPP are located in East and Southeast Asia, where China is increasing its influence for sovereignty over the South China Sea and hegemony in Asia. Professor Green and Professor Goodman analyze that the US goal of strengthening economic ties between small Southeast Asian nations is to prevent Beijing's use of mercantile coercion to calm those nations over the maritime dispute in the South China Sea (Green, Goodman 28). This will allow the United States to continuously maintain national security in the Pacific and Asian areas and prevent China from reaching the area