For Cecilia Malmström, European Commissioner for Trade, 2019 must be a pivotal year in the reform of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) and in the identification of multilateral solutions to the challenge posed by the Chinese economic model.
In an intervention at the Atlantic Council on Thursday 10 January, she called on Washington to join the European Union in promoting a "sufficient reform agenda" for the WTO, now obsolete because of its inability, among other things, to regulate...