trade war

By undermining the organization’s dispute resolution body, the administration is undoing decades of rules-based economic cooperation—to the United States’ own peril.

Economic tensions with China may be soothed, but in 2020, Trump will have other trade concerns to worry about.

Several important events occurred this year, but few did anything to significantly alter global trends.

Its next chapter will be fought through export and import controls, investment restrictions, and sanctions—and the United States should prepare itself now.

With the new China deal, Trump may see 2020 as the year he’ll win the United States’ trade wars. Instead, they’ll likely spin further out of his control.

With precious few victories to show for it, Washington keeps starting new trade wars.

The United States needs to build global alliances while demarcating clear areas of trust and competition with China.

Trump’s trade wars aren’t just about him or China—but global economic imbalances that the next U.S. administration will still have to address.

Both the United States and China want a bargain. But they’re fooling themselves if they think it’s happening.

As the U.S.-China trade war heats up, Beijing and Moscow could ditch Boeing and Airbus and make their own planes together—but it won’t be good news for passengers or airlines.

A crisis unfolds in Kashmir, the U.S.-China trade war escalates (again), and the United States grapples with back-to-back mass shootings.

The U.S.-China trade war reignites, the Fed takes bold action, and a U.S.-Russia nuclear treaty comes to an end.

The Trump administration’s obsession with trade threats, tariffs, and bullying both allies and rivals into submission was based on an ambitious theory. It turned out to be a fallacy.

Beijing’s annual investments have plummeted from a 2016 peak to an eight-year low in 2018.

Tokyo’s temper tantrum over history is mostly hurting itself.

Chinese leaders say they can effectively retaliate against Trump’s tariffs. They’re wrong.

By lowering interest rates, the body is cushioning the blow of tariffs and convincing the president that they are working.

Ten things to read as relations sour.

The trade war has been good for Hanoi—but the boom has its limits.

The trade war is showing how deep Beijing’s global influence runs.