He Yafei, Former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs
Mar 19, 2018
The world is not totally dark and the forces of free trade and globalization remain strong. China stands firm and holds the banner of free trade high.
Yu Xiang, Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute
Mar 16, 2018
Trump’s trade belligerence is damaging the house America built.
Lu Chen, Consultant, United Nations
Feb 08, 2018
If effective policy measures can't be taken to contain it, the risks to the world economy caused by the escalation of protectionism could severely disturb the world in 2018.
Jan 26, 2018
President says he would drop opposition to trade pact if better deal could be negotiated.
Jan 24, 2018
Analysts say duties will result in job losses in US and set back use of renewables
Jan 11, 2018
Canada has launched a wide-ranging trade complaint against the United States, the World Trade Organization said on Wednesday.
Christopher A. McNally, Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University
Sep 19, 2017
It seems as if U.S. President Donald Trump is intent on perpetrating a dangerous fallacy: to impose tariffs on American imports to lower the trade deficit. These moves are coming despite the fact that the most prominent critic of China’s trade practices in the U.S. administration, Steven Bannon, has left the White House. Why is the Trump administration so enamored by tariffs, a trade policy more commonly employed a hundred years ago?
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
Jun 15, 2017
China has an increasing opportunity to share global leadership. Unless the U.S. recognizes U.S.-China relations as a positive-sum game, China may eventually surpass the U.S. economically through global leadership and innovation.
Vasilis Trigkas, Visiting Assistant Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Apr 03, 2017
Could Trump like Richard Nixon “echo like thunder” by unilaterally announcing a high tariff regime to balance U.S. trade deficit and break the WTO system? While some of Trump’s advisors would wave their heads affirmatively, the institutional and commercial leverage of the U.S today is much inferior from Nixon’s America that bended Europeans to follow her unilateral demands.
Jan 18, 2017
Chinese President Xi Jinping, in his unprecedented appearance at the World Economic Forum in Davos, calls for new models of global growth, cooperation, governance and development.
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