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1/ Friends, the unstoppable @KBotwright over at the @wef has posted a poll seeking views on the future of the international trading system. I encourage you to take a look.
It's based on work by @_AnabelG and @YelingT, two very serious @TradeExperettes.
It's based on work by @_AnabelG and @YelingT, two very serious @TradeExperettes.
2/ The four poll options are summarized below.
They pose two questions:
- Will trade become easier, or harder?
- Will countries work together, or draw apart?
In the face of new technologies, climate change and unstable geopolitics, these are far from academic curiosities.
They pose two questions:
- Will trade become easier, or harder?
- Will countries work together, or draw apart?
In the face of new technologies, climate change and unstable geopolitics, these are far from academic curiosities.
3/ None of the challenges humanity faces can be solved by countries acting alone, producing alone or working at cross purposes.
Equally however, none are so simple and without implication that cooperation will come easily, naturally or inevitably.
Equally however, none are so simple and without implication that cooperation will come easily, naturally or inevitably.
4/ The voices of opposition will come, as they always have.
Fueled in equal measure by legitimate concerns and parochial nativism, they will call for the burning of bridges, the building of walls and the false comfort of protectionist isolationism.
Fueled in equal measure by legitimate concerns and parochial nativism, they will call for the burning of bridges, the building of walls and the false comfort of protectionist isolationism.
5/ I won't reveal how I voted except to say something being the only option is rarely proof it will be road we take.
Please do vote, and drop a comment in @KBotwright's thread to share how you see the future. It's a discussion we need to have.
Please do vote, and drop a comment in @KBotwright's thread to share how you see the future. It's a discussion we need to have.
