List of Trade Policy & Agreements articles
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Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi and Deputy Prime Minister Pham Binh Minh In Asia, China’s Long Game Beats America’s Short Game
Beijing’s focus on economic ties will outlast Washington’s on military alliances.
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Cars line up to cross the U.S. border in Tijuana, Mexico, on Nov. 7, 2021, ahead of the United States reopening its land borders to foreigners vaccinated against COVID-19, almost 20 months after they were closed. GUILLERMO ARIAS/AFP via Getty Images Who Lost North America?
The project of a stronger, more united continent is on life support. It’s time for a new vision.
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Japan’s presidential aircraft lands in Germany. Germany Can Learn From Japan’s China Strategy
Berlin should import policies from another economic power in a similar predicament.
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Scott Morrison and Xi Jinping Australia Shows the World What Decoupling From China Looks Like
The bottom line: Beijing’s attempt to bully Canberra has been a spectacular failure.
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Elizabeth Truss arrives for a cabinet meeting. Liz Truss, True Believer
From Brexit-skeptic to face of the “Global Britain” agenda, the new foreign secretary has always seen politics as philosophy in action.
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A general view of a garment factory at the Hawassa Industrial Park in Hawassa, southern Ethiopia on Oct. 1, 2019. Don’t Remove Ethiopia’s AGOA Trade Privileges
The Biden administration has threatened to end Addis Ababa’s eligibility under the African Growth and Opportunity Act. Doing so would hurt the poor the most.
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The container ship Ever Given arrives at the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands on July 29. Biden’s Vague Muddle of a Trade Policy for China
The administration should stop agonizing over Beijing and focus on trade with everyone else instead.
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A Chinese worker in a yellow hardhat looks on as a cargo ship is loaded with shipping containers at a port. China Wants to Join the Trade Pact Once Designed to Counter It
Beijing filed its formal application to join the CPTPP.
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U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris speaks during a joint news conference with Singaporean Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong in Singapore on Aug. 23. Kamala Harris’s Asia Trip Can’t Fix Biden’s Troubled Indo-Pacific Strategy
Lacking a serious vision for the region, the administration is aiming low.
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Angolan President Joao Lourenco shakes hands with Chinese President Xi Jinping during the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation held in Beijing on Sept. 3, 2018. China Is the Biggest Winner From Africa’s New Free Trade Bloc
AfCFTA was supposed to usher in a new era of continental trade and economic growth—but Beijing’s not letting that happen.
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The MV Ever Given container ship sails in the Suez Canal How the Red Sea Became a Trap
From piracy to the Ever Given, colonialism left hard scars.
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A container ship sails on the Mediterranean Sea during a thunderstorm about 20 nautical miles from Malta on Sept. 24, 2017. Free Trade Is Dead. Risky ‘Managed Trade’ Is Here.
The old trade order has gone out the window at breathtaking speed. What comes next is very slippery.
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Biden tours Pfizer manufacturing plant Bidenomics Is ‘America First’ With a Brain
Trump’s economic revolution is alive and well—and continuing in abler hands.
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Jian, China, border with North Korea Across the North Korean Border in China, an Economic Winter That Never Ends
The pandemic killed hopes of a trade boom.
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ever-given-stuck-supply-chain-timo-lenzen-illustration-Bottle_R6_SW_V1 The Ever Given Crew Are Still Stuck at Sea
Here’s why and what their story means for other seafarers.