The city needs to find its voice to defend the global multilateral trading system and the rules that have fostered growth for eight decades
Few economies depend as heavily as Hong Kong on a free and open multilateral trading system. Few have as much to lose if the current US administration succeeds in disembowelling the World Trade Organization and miring international trade in tariffs and other forms of protectionism.
Yet as the global trading system faces a protectionist assault, Hong Kong’s voice is nowhere to be heard. Our economy has a vested interest in pushing back against the chaotic trade protectionism that US President Donald Trump has unleashed on the world, and yet our government seems to be missing in action.
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