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The Compass: The Great Unravelling: The Great Unravelling: Trade and Trump

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21/11/2018 GMT

The Great Unravelling: Trade and Trump

The Great Unravelling

BBC World Service - The Compass, The Great Unravelling, The Great Unravelling: Trade and Trump

Could President Trump’s trade wars break the World Trade Organisation?

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 – and can the system survive?

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Is the world order that was forged after World War II unravelling?

Is the world order that was forged after World War II unravelling? The journalist and former barrister Afua Hirsch talks to a wide range of international lawyers, historians and thinkers and asks if the world order forged after WWII is coming apart.

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