trade war

The RCEP truly is a China-style trade agreement: platitudinous and ineffective.

Washington will not return as the champion of the global trading system. But it may stop being its biggest foe.

From suffering U.S. farmers to the pain inflicted on the developing world, everything about U.S. agriculture policy is dysfunctional. The next administration can do better.

Biden has matched Trump’s rhetoric on trade soundbite for soundbite, and his economic plans are likely to make trade conflicts worse.

Fortunately for supporters of aggressive action on global emissions, Trump has demonstrated a highly effective way to circumvent the legislative process.

China’s efforts to use the Houston consulate to steal science and technology secrets were “particularly aggressive and particularly successful,” Trump administration indicates.

Not even a Biden victory would heal the wounds in the U.S.-EU relationship.

Whether it’s about trade or the coronavirus, it’s possible to be tough on China without being racist or reckless.

Bleak data on China’s economic outlook counters claims by Trump officials that the U.S. economy can get quickly back on track when the lockdown lifts.

New barriers are going up at breathtaking speed. The pandemic will accelerate not the demise of globalization but its transformation.

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.