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‘If You Compromise With Totalitarian Systems, You Will Pay a High Price’

POLITICO · last updated

With transatlantic tensions rising as Donald Trump is sworn in as president, Mathias Döpfner says he’s got a better idea.

Döpfner, the CEO of German publishing giant Axel Springer (which owns POLITICO), argues that now is the moment for the U.S. and European Union — along with friendly democracies like Japan, Canada and Australia — to form a grand trading alliance against China, Russia and other autocracies that engage in unfair trade practices.

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