He says: “We knew the story of the international rules-based order was partially false. That the strongest would exempt themselves when convenient. That trade rules were enforced asymmetrically.
The world order has been ruptured, marking the ending of a “pleasant fiction”, declared Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney in a Jan 20 speech.
Speaking at the World Economic Forum, Carney shines a light on what most of the world recognises but is presumably not brave enough to articulate — that the rules-based international order was a pretence, with countries participating by “living within a lie” and undertaking practices that sustain US hegemony.
