A U.S.-China trade war, the COVID-19 pandemic and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine are three blows that spell, for a growing number of observers, an end to globalization.
While there is a powerful rebuttal, I’m with the pessimists. The terms of international engagement, and economic activities in particular, are changing. That’s natural and proper as power and principles themselves evolve.
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