Outside voices: Questions, without answers, from Alan Wolff

Longtime trade professional Alan Wolff is full of questions about trade policy in the near term and, more broadly, the future of the world trading system. The Peterson Institute of International Economics senior fellow wonders, in the title of a Nov. 22 speech, “ Can the World Trading System Survive Donald Trump ?” He then follows that up with question after question, building to deep skepticism about the near term and a hope that “over time … the world’s nations...