Belt and Road Summit: Beijing’s Push on Trade

By Jonathan Hillman

Jonathan Hillman is the director of the Reconnecting Asia Project at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. Follow him on Twitter @HillmanJE.

Forgive free-trade advocates for being a bit disoriented this year. The vertigo hit hard in January, when trade’s most notable defender at the World Economic Forum meeting in Davos, Switzerland, was not from the West but from the East.

“Say no to protectionism,” Chinese President Xi Jinping urged in his remarks at the meeting.

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