With Trump back in the White House, the age of free trade could be coming to an end
- Written by Sami Bensassi, Reader in Trade and Development Economics, University of Birmingham

For a superpower like the US, free trade is, in practice, an invitation to partake in its wealth. But it also implies an obligation, including political support (or at least non-opposition) and an expectation that the poorer nation will give back part of its new riches by buying the superpower’s high-tech...