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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

Published Wed, Jan 25, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Singapore

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.