Well….This is a very unbiased article…… you think????



He Lives in China, works for a global economic village purveyor…. Ex world bank… a pure globalist… and is an economist following the religious fanaticism that is free trade…



Spent the whole article trying to move the target cross hairs off China ……



He does not get it… free trade is a failed ideology and will be replaced with far more controlled trade processes involving tariff and trade blocs and will be enforced by nation to nation deals not some world trade organization… citizens will come first not some new world global order that has mostly benefited the 1%



Wait until the Chinese population figure out that national organic growth through internal consumerism is the best future. We all need to learn that wasteful international free trade is bad in the long run for developed nations and the planet!



Trade will still exist …. but be far more balanced sourcing of true non- indigenous goods and materials rather than a free for all of duplicitous trading as it has been for the last 3 decades.



To get things moving and as usual north America via Trump will take the lead, and the rest will follow.



Another thing. tariffs don’t cost the tariff setting nation anything at all. The revenue from such a tariff can be redeployed into that nation by the government. The game is to stop wasteful imports.



Look… international trade should be a nations decision, not be the rest of the worlds god given right controlled by a purest yet out of date WTO.



I think we should send most economists back to school to learn to think, rather than let them keep parroting a failed religion to most past politicos who have been highly gullible.