Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a full-throated defense of economic globalization at a time of global uncertainty fueled by Britain’s decision to leave the European Union and the U.S. election victory of Donald Trump . “Some people blame economic globalization for the chaos in our world,” Mr. Xi said in a speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Mr. Xi countered the notion, saying that neither the refugee crisis nor the international financial crisis were the product of such globalization.

Source: Wall Street Journal January 17, 2017 12:08 UTC