Theresa May, Britain’s new prime minister, will attend this year, as will some of Mr. Trump’s advisers. “Billions of people owe better lives to it.”He invoked Klaus Schwab, the founder of the World Economic Forum. And, depending how the political winds shift, more people of her ideological ilk may join the Davos class in 2018. This is not the first time that The World Economic Forum has come under fire from critics about its globalist, free-trade message. Mr. Trump, with very few exceptions, was largely written off last year as a bad joke.

Source: New York Times January 16, 2017 12:20 UTC