Trump will destroy world trade, but democracies can defend themselves - and each other | Anders Fogh Rasmussen

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

63% : The EU maintains comprehensive agreements with Japan, South Korea and Canada.
61% : The EU, the UK, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, and South Korea represent roughly 25% of global GDP and account for about 35% of global trade volume.
57% : An outstanding agreement between the EU and Australia could be put back on track, and the UK chancellor, Rachel Reeves, recently stressed an improvement in the UK-EU trading relationship as "imperative".
46% : Any number of politicians and vested interests could raise concerns about agricultural policies or regulatory approaches.
43% : Or we can find new avenues to keep free trade alive.
40% : The D7 would draw on an existing web of bilateral and regional trade agreements and could serve as an incentive to sign new ones.
28% : If this order continues to fragment, democracies will be left at the whims of Trump and Xi Jinping.
23% : Yet as Donald Trump takes a sledgehammer to that economic order, America's democratic allies face a choice.

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