The Chinese Ministry of Commerce says China will continue to actively participate in bilateral and multilateral trade deals, with the goal of deepening reform and opening up its economy.

That ministry said that is regardless of the direction that the Trans Pacific Partnership or the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership might take.

The ministry’s statement came after U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said he would withdraw the U.S. from the TPP.

The Commerce Ministry, meanwhile, said China would push for RCEP negotiations to be speeded up to conclude soon, with full respect for the Association of Southeast Asian Nations’s core status in the deal.