US global cooperation may help to improve world affairs

THE World Economic Forum (WEF) starts its annual meeting in Davos on Tuesday with key guests including US President Donald Trump. This year's session, on the theme of creating a shared future in a fractured world, will focus on how best to renew international cooperation in a global context in which "geopolitical fractures have re-emerged on multiple fronts with wide-ranging political, economic and social consequences".

Ironically, given that Mr Trump will be in attendance at the WEF, it is his own "America First" vision which has been a driver …