How digital TPP could help world chart digital way forward

In the fall of 2016, both the Republican and Democratic candidates for the US presidency came out against the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a huge trade deal that would have tied together economies comprising roughly 40 percent of global GDP. Donald Trump would go on to withdraw the US from TPP in his very first week in office. The "America First" era had officially begun.

Two-and-a-half years into the post-American world order, Washington continues to confound traditional US allies. Europeans find themselves branded "currency manipulators." Security ties with Japan are being openly questioned. All the while, the US-China trade war continues to progress in fits and starts, weighing on global economic growth. But while the trade war captures international headlines, there's another battle brewing between Beijing and Washington, one with greater potential for global...