The second annual Dentons Rodyk Dialogue was jointly organised by SMU Centre for Cross Border Commercial Law in Asia and law firm Dentons Rodyk. Titled “International Trade in the Age of Brexit and Trump”, the Dialogue was graced by Minister-in-charge of Trade Relations S Iswaran – who is also the Minister for Communications and Information – as its Guest-of-Honour, and also featured former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Law Professor Tania Voon from the University of Melbourne and Ho Kwon Ping, Chairman of the SMU Board of Trustees and Executive Chairman of Banyan Tree Holdings. In his speech on ‘The Fiction of Free Trade’, Mr Ho suggested the concept of shielding “geriatric industries” from competition, similar to how infant industries in developing countries were protected in earlier decades.