Global Challenges Require Strengthening Multilateralism
摘要
Impacts from the 2008 financial crisis, COVID-19, and the Russia–Ukraine conflictRussia-Ukraine conflict have shaken the rules-based global economic and trade governance. The WTO is facing huge challenges including protectionist policies that would have been previously unthinkable, but now common under the pretext of national security. Borderless challenges such as the COVID-19 pandemic require countries to work together and China should actively participate in this process while preventing the multilateral trading systemMultilateral Trading System from moving toward protectionism.