> I think the USA is becoming more protectionist, but that doesn’t mean that free trade agreements amongst the rest of the world stop. In 2008 New Zealand signe

> I think the USA is becoming more protectionist, but that doesn’t mean that free trade agreements amongst the rest of the world stop. In 2008 New Zealand signed a free trade agreement with China. Knowing full well the scale of China's pollution (not just carbon), emvironmental destruction, human rights abuses, labor exploitation, militarization and annexation of regions like Tibet and Inner Mongolia, further expansionist aims in the South China Sea and Taiwan, intellectual property theft and currency manipulation, attacks on activists in western countries, and general brutal totalitarian government. And it's the same story in the Middle East, Africa, Latin America, etc. Worse in many cases because of the wars and interventions from western countries. This is why people are sick of globalism and sick of hypocritical corrupt western governments and their preaching and lies. Globalism has just become synonymous with the ruling class shirking responsibility and making themselves unanswerable to the people. High time for a change I think.