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Opinion
October 26, 2018 www.intellinews.com I Page 21
Nowhere is the backlash against multilateralism clearer than in America, where US President Donald Trump rejected “global governance, control and domination” in a fiery speech
during the UN general assembly at the end of September.
“America is governed by Americans,” he said to the UN General Assembly. “We reject the ideology of globalism and accept the doctrine of patriotism,” he went on, expanding on his “America First” policy that the Europeans
on the panel interpreted as the antithesis of multilateralism.
“The US is the most corrosive force for multilateralism in the world today,” said famous journalist and foreign affairs expert Robin Wright, who was also on the panel. “The president has encouraged all countries to think of themselves and think of their own wellbeing first. He has
encouraged the UK to Brexit and other countries to leave the EU.”
Trump has been working to undermine the infrastructure of globalism, Wright went on. He has walked away from the North America Free Trade Agreement (Nafta), “although the deal that has been put in its place is not dissimilar and not that bad,” believes Wright, and has started multiple trade wars with both rivals like China and allies like the EU.
Keeping up with globalism
Fischer argued that part of the problem is glo- balism is going so fast that politics is struggling to keep up.
“As we advance and globalisation accelerates we don't have the means to make it work. We have the advantage now that we can see things as they happen, unlike our forbears, but we are
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