The US president has successfully promoted populism, isolation and nationalism, accelerating de-globalisation and protectionism, all under the pretext of safeguarding economic security.
US President Donald Trump has taken the world back to the 1930s when depression, unemployment and growing global conflict were turbocharged by the adoption of protectionist policies across the developed world.
As a consequence, the global depression deepened national distrust, saw the evaporation of hope and resulted in World War II.
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Andrew Robb was Australia’s minister for trade and investment 2013–16.
