2023-08-24
38 分钟I'm Dan Kurtz-Valen and this is the Foreign Affairs interview.
Let's not throw out the baby with the bathwater.
The multilateral trading system is a global public good built in a tough and hard way over the past 75 years.
It has delivered.
It has its problems.
One must admit that and being a person from a developing country, I can see that.
However, it has delivered.
After World War II, an idea took hold.
Economic interdependence between countries would help prevent war.
But lately, faith in this idea has wavered.
In terms like decoupling, friend-shoring,
and de-risking are dominating debates around trade in Washington and beyond.
Dr.
Ngozi Okonjo-Iwayala,
the director general of the World Trade Organization and the first woman and African to serve in that role,
disagrees with key elements of the new consensus.
She thinks policymakers are misdiagnosing the problems the world faces,
and they risk setting us on a dangerous course,
one that could break the global economy and leave the world but less prosperous and less secure.
Dr.