Gordon Ritchie: The world can still defend free trade – but it won't be easy

It would be a mistake to dismiss the latest protectionist actions by the Trump administration as cheap bullying tactics and wait for common sense to prevail. Setting aside the buffoonery, in less than 18 months Trump and the like-minded team he has painfully assembled have made substantial strides toward dismantling the world liberal economic order his predecessors painstakingly built over the past 70 years.
Looking back, it is quite remarkable that amid the ruins of the Second World war a group