Why there's no referee for the trade war

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  Npr.

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  This is the indicator from Planet Money.

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  I'm Wayland Wong.

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  And I'm Adrienne Ma.

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  You know, in the midst of the Trump administration's trade war,

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  you might be wondering, is there some sort of neutral third party here,

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  you know,

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  some authority figure that can step in and stop this carnival ride of imposing tariffs than suspending those tariffs and threatening more tariffs and retaliating with tariffs?

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  The global economy does actually have a kind of mediator for these disputes.

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  The World Trade Organization and Canada and China have filed complaints against the US with the wto.

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  There's just one problem, though.

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  The WTO essentially is a lame duck,

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  and it's the US that has been blocking it from playing referee on these trade disputes.

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  And this hamstringing of the WTO did not start with Trump.

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  It actually goes back to the Obama.

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  Years today on the show.

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  What made the US Turn against the wto, an organization it helped create?

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  And how are other countries redefining their relationships in a system where the US No Longer wants to cooperate?

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  There's a lot of news happening.

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  You want to understand it better, but let's be honest,

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