How this happened is anybody's guess. Other than singing the song of globalization, China has become the defacto leader of free trade.
As hard as this is to believe, China, governed by the Communist Party, the Western world's former arch ideological enemy, is now the defacto leader of globalization. To say it's the leader of the free world would take away from Angela Merkel, whom is now seen as the Princess Leia held captive by a bunch of nationalist thugs building a new new world order. But what last week's World Economic Forum showed us all is that China is the official poster child of free trade.
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