As Trump rails, US allies take lead in changing trade rules
(WorldNews Europe)

GENEVA (AP) - U.S. President Donald Trump wants to rip up the rulebook for global trade. China is by many accounts abusing it. As a battle rages between the world’s top economic power and the fast-growing Asian giant striving to take its place, Canada and the European Union are quietly working to update the laws of international commerce, which have not been changed since the internet boom. The question is how to fix the World Trade Organization, which oversees trade rules and settles disputes as part of a global order the U.S. helped create after World War II to foster peace and get authoritarian countries to open up. As it stands, the WTO is on track to become powerless by next year...