White House's Willems: 'We have not turned our back' on multilateral system, but it must be fixed

Clete Willems, the deputy assistant to the president for international economics and the U.S. “Sherpa” at this year's G20 leaders summit, on Thursday touted what he called a historic communiqué from the leaders and asserted that the U.S. was not turning its back on the multilateral trading system. Willems, who also serves as deputy director for the White House economic council, said the language in the communiqué reflects how the U.S. views multilateralism in general. Specifically, the G20 leaders agreed...