A clarion call to defend global order

Cool dude: Chinese President Xi Jinping looking on during a meeting at the United Nations European headquarters in Geneva.

Government and business leaders were urged to stand up for liberal economic and political ways that has come under pressure from populist challengers in recent months.

WITH the clock ticking down on his last 48 hours in office, Joe Biden delivered a rallying call to government and business leaders in Davos to keep up their fight to defend the liberal global economic and political order that has come under pressure from populist challengers in recent months.