a trade war is raging on between the top two would connally's with no end in sight where we have the beginning self perhaps a conversation with the united states and china cities around the table if they succeed in building a bit of trust between the two of them then maybe others could join preferably around the world trade organization table and solve the grievances that they all have everybody has grievances about the system of international trade not being up to the standards of the twenty first century and that's fine but then the answer is c. there on that they will find common solutions but the whole system globalization. it's fizzling out well i think liberalization has taken different shapes and it's taken shape in a much more digital way and we do not understand how this digital way is working and certainly we cannot measure it properly and this is why we have the impression that the world is shrinking but in reality the interconnection that globalization brings is taking shape continues to take shape but in a different way today is much more about data exchanges services than it's about