It is barely a decade since the publication of "The World Is Flat," the Thomas Friedman book which painted globalization as a seemingly unstoppable trend along with the enmeshment of the world's giant economies, the U.S. and China.
But if the world was ever flat, as The New York Times columnist insisted, it doesn't look that way anymore. In Washington at least, since the election of Donald Trump, the world has begun to buckle.
