If you think that the US-China trade dispute is going to be easily resolved, you're not paying attention. It's so much deeper than you think – and so much more dangerous.

If Donald Trump and Xi Jinping don't find a way to defuse it soon, we're going to get where we're going – fracturing the globalisation system that has brought the world more peace and prosperity over the past 70 years than at any other time in history. And what we'll be birthing in its place is a digital Berlin Wall and a two-internet, two-technology world: one dominated by China and the other by the United States.