Many analysts have argued that with the election of President Trump, the rules-based multilateral trading system established in the post-World War II period has ended. This view is wrong, wrote Visiting Associate Professor Pradumna B. Rana at RSIS. Trade multilateralism has taken a different form and is functioning fairly well.

 …Pradumna B. Rana is Visiting Associate Professor at the Centre for Multilateralism Studies (CMS), S. Rajaratnam School of International Studies (RSIS), Nanyang Technological University (NTU), Singapore.