Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in the latter's Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago on April 6, 2017. Photo: MCT

Inside Out by David Dodwell

The US made the global trade rules it constantly claims are unfair

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For the Trump administration to argue that the trade playing field is unfairly skewed in favour of foreign countries is to be profoundly hypocritical

Published: 1:48pm, 1 Oct, 2017

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

Chinese President Xi Jinping meets with his US counterpart, Donald Trump, in the latter's Florida resort of Mar-a-Lago on April 6, 2017. Photo: MCT

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David Dodwell is the executive director of the Hong Kong-APEC Trade Policy Study Group, a trade policy think tank.