Walls may come up, but keep building doors and bridges
With the TPP's demise and Brexit looming, political solidarity is even more needed now to stand up to protectionism
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HE really did build a wall - with just the stroke of his pen.
On Monday, the 45th President of the United States Donald Trump signed orders to withdraw the world's largest economy from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) pact - a 12-member Pacific Rim free-trade agreement (FTA) that would have accounted for almost 40 per cent of the world's gross domestic product.
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