Global Business leader Mathias Döpfner offers a revolutionary roadmap to reshape global trade, strengthen our democracy, and safeguard our freedoms.
Bush, Angela Merkel, Jack Ma, and more, The Trade Trap offers personal insight into the dangerous consequences of Doing Business with autocrats along with a bold proposal for a values-based Trade policy..
Sharing the author\'s encounters with major global figures including Vladimir Putin, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, George W.
Those who don\'t will pay prohibitive tariffs.
Countries that comply with these criteria can engage in tariff-free Trade with others.
Membership is based on the adherence of three very simple criteria: the rule of law, human rights, and sustainability targets.
And he suggests a radical new approach to free trade: The establishment of a new values-based alliance of democracies.
In The Trade Trap , one of the world\'s most powerful Business leaders traces the rise and costs of Western dependency on China and Russia.
We are caught in a Trade trap, faced with the decision to choose either opportunism and submission or opposition and emancipation.
For two generations, Americans and Europeans have believed that change will come through trade, but instead of dictatorships becoming more like Western democracies, unfettered free Trade has strengthened our enemies and undermined our countries.
The Russian invasion in Ukraine was a wake-up call for the West, but the biggest threat remains China.
Autocrats in Europe, Asia, and the Mideast are undermining our open societies, human rights, and the rule of law.
Freedom is on the decline around the world.
Global Business leader Mathias Döpfner offers a revolutionary roadmap to reshape global trade, strengthen our democracy, and safeguard our freedoms