Walls – both metaphorical and physical – are going up all over the world. We’ve written a lot about U.S. President Donald Trump’s “Fortress America” approach to global trade. Trump has led the U.S. into a sharp shift away from globalisation – from promising to build a wall on the U.S./Mexico border and making it more difficult for people from certain countries that happen to be majority Muslim to enter the U.S., to withdrawing the U.S. from the climate change Paris Agreement. One of Trump’s first acts as president was to pull the U.S. out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) – a 12-country deal that would have ... (full story)