Judged Broken EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmström expressed understandable frustration with the continued blocking by Washington of new dispute settlement judges for the WTO. She reportedly says that she fears the U.S. “may be killing the WTO from inside.” She also complains that she has not heard specific concerns from the U.S. What is notable is that the blocking effort is not just a Donald Trump ploy but a carryover policy from the Obama administration. Since he thinks his predecessor did nothing right, we can be facetious and argue that Trump will reverse course in Geneva if he finds this out. The U.S. has many reasons to be frustrated with the WTO system. Once having held global economic hegemony, it conceded mor...