Economics
Davos Elites Rush to Barricades to Defend International Order
- Merkel and Abe use speeches to defend multilateral system
- China’s Wang calls out America’s ‘self-claimed supremacy’
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The agenda in Davos may be expansive but one clear priority remains at the top of the list: defending the global order.
In speeches at the World Economic Forum’s annual meeting on Wednesday, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Chinese Vice President Wang Qishan offered full-throated -- and by now largely familiar -- defenses of globalization and multilaterism while calling for an end to the trade wars that President Donald Trump has launched.