Former WTO chief: 'The US doesn't have a trade problem, it has a domestic social problem'
- Pascal Lamy, former director-general of the World Trade Organization (WTO), says US tariffs will not solve anything.
- American accusations that China is not following WTO rules are unjustified, according to Lamy.
- According to Lamy, the WTO must learn to live without the US, at least de facto.
US President Donald Trump accuses China and Europe of weakening the US through their trade behaviour. Nonsense, says Pascal Lamy, former director-general of the World Trade Organisation.
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