Craig Burchell is senior vice president of global trade affairs at Huawei Technologies.
As the World Economic Forum convenes online this week rather than in Davos, its participants will discuss how to move "beyond geopolitics." Trade wars, populist politics and COVID-19 have led countries to question their reliance on global supply chains and retreat into a defensive posture of self-sufficiency, choking off the cross-border trade that has long fueled global growth.
