This week, the global elite will convene once again in Davos, Switzerland, after a two-year pandemic break, for the World Economic Forum. The conversation will revolve around deglobalisation and its discontents. I expect the headlines will be that decoupling between China and the US is untenable, free trade always works just as David Ricardo thought it would, and unless we return to the mid-1990s status quo of neoliberalism, doom awaits.
疫情期間中斷兩年後,本週全球精英將再次齊聚瑞士達佛斯舉行世界經濟論壇(World Economic Forum)。對話將圍繞去全球化及對其不滿展開。我預計中心觀點將是:讓中國與美國脫鉤是行不通的;自由貿易始終像大衛•李嘉圖(David Ricardo,活躍於19世紀初葉的英國政治經濟學家,對經濟學作出系統的貢獻——譯者注)所認爲的那樣發揮作用;除非我們回到上世紀90年代中期的新自由主義現狀,否則我們將迎來厄運。