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Jane Kelsey, Emeritus Professor of Law, University of Auckland, Waipapa Taumata Rau

The World Trade Organization is on life support. Will Trump’s new rules finish it off?

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The United States has now withdrawn from 66 international organisations, conventions and treaties, illegally invaded Venezuela, and promoted an “America First” agenda in its new National Security Strategy.

This all signals the collapse of a global system that has operated for the past 60 years. The old world order – driven by hyper-globalisation and US hegemonic power – is in its death throes, but a new era is yet to be born.

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