Pascal Lamy was director-general of the World Trade Organization from 2005-2013. He is also a member of the Berggruen Institute’s 21st Century Council. PARIS — Until recently, President Trump’s trade posture seemed to be more bark than bite. Exiting the Trans-Pacific Partnership, which the Obama administration had decided not to push through Congress, was more symbolic than real; […]
Pascal Lamy est interviewé par la Chaîne de Télévision chinoise CCTV pour répondre à des questions sur la mondialisation à travers le Forum de Boao.
Beijing, China, 24 March 2018 : « Most of us in this room have believed for a long time that, wherever we are on this planet, economic development leads to appease political tensions. That good economies and good politics go together. And now, looking at recent developments, there are reasons to doubt that this remains true: […]
The former chief of the World Trade Organization, Pascal Lamy, believes Taiwan’s best hope for coping with a potential US-China trade war is to protect the multilateral trading system. In Taiwan for an international conference, Lamy warned that Taiwan’s most vulnerable exports were those that ended in the US after being processed in third countries.
Pascal Lamy says that Taiwan is a major player in global trade and it could be a risk if the multinational trading system fails.
About the potential trade war between China and the United States, Pascal Lamy says that Taiwan has good reasons to be worried because it’s depend more on the multilateral trading system.
