GERALD SEIB | ‘There’s going to be a pivot toward bilateral away from multilateral free-trade agreements.’ Photo: Nikki Ritcher/Dow JonesThe Trump election represents an upheaval on the political scene. Second thing is, on a broader scale, there’s a kind of a disconnect between the Trump administration and the tech community. And then when he met with tech executives in Trump Tower just before the inaugural, he said essentially the opposite. MR. SEIB: I talked to a tech executive a few days ago who said, the problem at the outset of the Trump administration is that it’s hard to get to the dialogue between the tech community and the Trump administration on the kinds of issues you asked about initially. That’s going to put those companies and the tech community at odds with the administration.

Source: Wall Street Journal March 07, 2017 03:08 UTC