The American flag flies at Port Liberty Bayonne in New Jersey on Thursday. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

As a horrified world watches the upending of an economic order that has brought it stability and prosperity for decades, the question I hear in country after country is the same: Why is the United States, the nation that has flourished so mightily under this system, tearing it down?

When I explain that many Americans — including the president — believe America has been the victim of this free trade system, the response is bewilderment. “How can you not see what is blindingly obvious: that you are the big winner,” one senior foreign official said to me. PAID PROMOTED STORIES

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