Rebalancing Trade: Riding the tide of opportunities

    2020-01-07T12:41:20+00:00August 9th, 2016|2016, July/August 2016, Putting it in Context, Year|

    I’m reminded of a famous line from William Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar, which says: “There is a tide in the affairs of men, which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; omitted, all the voyage of their life is bound in shallows and in miseries.”

    We are now riding such a tide. Global economic flux and political uncertainty means world leaders need to figure out new relationships, new opportunities and reset the rules of engagement for a more connected and less secure than before world, where unprecedented migration and the movement of people for safety or for work is leading to anxiety.

    These issues need to be...