Oct 11, 2018

Ahead of its meetings this week in Bali, and In part due to the US-China trade war, the IMF has wound down for the global economy. Listen to an interview with Christine Lagarde, who says once again that tariffs spell bad news ...

Oct 03, 2018

193 member states came together in New York last week, but China and the United States carried the headlines on North Korea and Iran, and with their alternate takes on the future multilateralism.

Sep 20, 2018

The U.S. went many steps further in the ballooning trade war, by setting tariffs on a further $200bn worth of imports from China – and warning China not to retaliate.

Sep 14, 2018

The trade war looks set to enter a wider, mainstream conversation as Apple's new iPhone is reminder that consumer prices for its products could be in line for a hike of its own. China also serves notices that it could look elsewhere for its soybean supply or even modify its ...

Sep 05, 2018

China played host this week to leaders from 53 African nations at the Forum on China-Africa Cooperation (FOCAC). The event climaxed with a $60 billion pledge of aid, investment and loans from ...

Aug 31, 2018

Chen Dingding is professor of International Relations at Jinan University in China's Guangzhou, Non-Resident Fellow at the Global Public Policy Institute in Berlin, and Founder of the Intellisia Institute. He speaks to James Chau about how the exchange of trade tariffs is reshaping the China-US relationship.

Aug 28, 2018

Public hearings regarding trade tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese goods were doubled in length last week, when American business owners clambered for the chance to speak - and many of them are worried.

Aug 22, 2018

We live in a world, and at an uncertain time, when we require not just elected politicians, but state figures who exercise authentic and effective moral leadership. I remember Kofi Annan who died on Saturday, our interview in 2015 ...

Aug 14, 2018

The trade war between the U.S. and China has become a new reality for 1.7 billion people. Soybean producers, coffee roasters and agricultural farmers are all unhappy - and they say why exactly on this podcast episode. China will struggle to withstand the tariffs, but the U.S. ...

Aug 07, 2018

Missouri may only be the 18th most populous U.S. state, but it's a top five producer of both soybeans and rice. Add to that other agricultural products like beef, hay, poultry, cotton and corn, and you get the idea of how important it is. The expanding trade war between the U.S. and China is going to hit states like Missouri and cripple communities.