Chinese President Xi Jinping after his speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, in 2017. The argument against the World Economic Forum was most famously made by late conservative American political scientist Samuel Huntington in a 2004 essay. He weaponized resentment toward “anti-national” liberals in coastal cities and decried the sort of high-toned international debates that take place at the World Economic Forum. In its own messaging surrounding this year's meeting, the World Economic Forum has implicitly acknowledged the ideological challenge posed by Trump and his ilk. “The bar for success at the World Economic Forum is actually pretty low.

Source: Washington Post January 22, 2018 05:48 UTC