DAVOS, Switzerland: China's President Xi Jinping warned Tuesday against scapegoating globalization for the world's ills or retreating behind protectionist walls, days before Donald Trump takes office.

In what amounted to a rewriting of the global economic order, led for decades by the United States, Xi used his debut speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos to insist that globalization was irreversible despite a populist backlash in the West.

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