What the world needs now is multilateral reform

Chrystia Freeland should pay attention to the warnings of Kevin Rudd, the former Australian prime minister and now Australian ambassador to the United States. 'We have entered a new, uncharted era where there are, as yet, no new rules of the road. China has reached a similar conclusion. The time has therefore come to craft some new ones before it’s too late.'

Finance Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland, pictured in a Hill scrum. In her much-publicized Washington speech on Oct. 11, 2022, she endorsed the misguided and dangerous American policy that would divide the world into competing blocs—democracies versus autocracies—as the organizing system for the future, writes David Crane.The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY DAVID CRANE

March 20, 2023

TORONTO—A little more than 50 years ago, our new prime minister, Pierre Trudeau, declared that “many of the major world issues will not be resolved completely, nor in any lasting way, unless, and until, an accommodation has been reached with the Chinese nation.” Despit...

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