The Great Unravelling: Trade and Trump

Published: Nov. 21, 2018, 4 a.m.

The World Trade Organisation was established in 1995, building on earlier global trade mechanisms. Did this represent a capture of the systems by neoliberals after the Cold War? Now President Trump is waging a trade war on China and sidelining the WTO. Does he have a point \u2013 and can the system survive?