Yergin: WTO consensus is over, replaced by US-China competition
Dr. Daniel Yergin · Columbia Energy Exchange: Will Putin’s Energy Strategy Backfire? · Sep 22, 2022 · at 26:50
Energy historian Dr. Daniel Yergin discusses the global shift away from free-market multilateral globalization toward geopolitical and economic competition.
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“Well, that's gone. That is gone. It is now the era of great power competition, and that's the U.S. Versus China.”
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