Read Joe Biden’s Speech Warning of the Collapse of the ‘ New World Order’
Vice President Joe Biden warned about the collapse of the "world order" Wednesday during his last time addressing global leaders in his official role
Our careful attention to building and sustaining a liberal international order-with the United States and Europe at its core-was the bedrock of the success the world enjoyed in the second half of the 20th Century.
Today, I'd like to speak to the sources of those pressures, and about why it is imperative that we act urgently to defend the liberal international order. Here in this exclusive Alpine tower, where CEOs of multinational corporations rub elbows with leaders of nations, it is easy to embrace the intellectual benefits of a more open and integrated world.
But it is at our own peril that we ignore or dismiss the legitimate fears and anxieties that exist in communities all across the developed world.
The concern mothers and fathers feel about losing the factory job that has always allowed them to provide for their families.
Parents who don't believe that they can give their children a better life than the one they have.
These are the pressures that are undermining support for the liberal international order from the inside.
Globalization has not been an unalloyed good.
It has deepened the rift between those racing ahead at the top and those struggling to hang on in the middle, or falling to the bottom.
http://fortune.com/2017/01/18/joe-biden-speech-world-economic-forum-davos-transcript/
