The new head of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, seems to be cut of the same leftist cloth that make up the organizations that raised her. Her Wikipedia page includes a laundry list of leftist groupthink incubators where she cut her teeth. These include the Rockefeller Foundation, the Nelson Mandela Foundation, as well as many other Social Justice supporting tar pits. She was also a member of the Twitter Board of Directors, but her name is absent from their website now.

She is being billed as a first, because of her skin color and ancestry, but not because she has any original thinking. Diversity only counts as long as you have the same leanings as the other leftists in the room.

The reason she is remarkable now, is because China has written an article holding her out as a voice to be listened to concerning trade with the communist nation.

“I’ll just be very open,” said Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, who made history in March when she became the first woman and first African to head the WTO, as she warned against targeting China. “When China feels it’s being targeted and it’s only about China, then you get a lot of resistance.”

In the speech, Okonjo-Iweala went further to warn countries not to “use the WTO or trade as kind of a weapon to solve” political issues. She did not name names, but that is a reference to the plan pushed by the US, the EU and Japan to try to “weaponize the WTO” and international trading rules to serve their ill-willed, selfish political interests in containing China’s economic rise.

That line of thinking makes me wonder if she is actually dense. What is trade if not an extension of a societies values, therefore politics. Trade can be beneficial for both sides of the transaction, but do we, as a nation, have a desire for present day slavers to prosper? I would like to speak on behalf of the United States and say no, though some of our corporations may disagree (link to slave labor supporting companies).

So, as we properly do with many other international organizations, we should go on and ignore the WTO as backward and irrelevant. They need to be taught to understand that “America First” is not just a slogan, it is an economic and trade policy as well.