Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
Mar 19, 2018
The Section 232 measure is a highly unconventional and controversial one to restrain imports on the basis of their detrimental impact on U.S. national security. Worse, its employment against foreign trade partners, including China, is likely to be the first volley in an increasingly torrid summer of lethal trade pyrotechnics. The worst is yet to come.
Yu Xiang, Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute
Mar 16, 2018
Trump’s trade belligerence is damaging the house America built.
Vasilis Trigkas, Visiting Assistant Professor, Schwarzman College, Tsinghua University
Mar 14, 2018
Are trade wars easy to win and is Trump both willing and capable of escalating the conflict with Beijing to an all-out trade war, hoping that China will sooner or later capitulate?
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Mar 12, 2018
How China and the US avoid a tit for tat exchange and explore a new basis of mutual benefit and win-win cooperation through negotiations is particularly urgent.
He Weiwen, Senior Fellow, Center for China and Globalization, CCG
Mar 08, 2018
Trump is shooting himself in the foot.
Mar 02, 2018
President Donald Trump announced on Thursday he would impose hefty tariffs on imported steel and aluminum to protect U.S. producers, risking retaliation from major trade partners like China, Europe and neighboring Canada as well as helping to trigger a large selloff on Wall Street.
Mar 01, 2018
Top aides to President Donald Trump look to push a tough line on trade in talks on Thursday with an envoy of Chinese President Xi Jinping, with a White House official saying a frank exchange of views was expected.
Patrick Mendis, Visiting Professor of Global Affairs, National Chengchi University
Joey Wang, Defense Analyst
Feb 28, 2018
Despite the tensions between the two nations in both economic and geopolitical arenas, Washington and Beijing have generally recognized the mutual benefits of trade. This form of “controlled tension” has in the past been able to navigate the contours of various trade disputes. All that changed in 2016.
Sara Hsu, Visiting Scholar at Fudan University
Feb 28, 2018
China’s Commerce Ministry has launched an anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigation into American exports of sorghum, which is believed to be underpriced and damaging to Chinese farmers. This may result in the imposition of tariffs on sorghum imports from the U.S. The action appears to be retaliation against tariffs imposed by the U.S., and may result in a larger trade war.
Feb 28, 2018
The U.S. Commerce Department said on Tuesday it had made a final determination that imports of aluminum foil from China are being sold in the United States at less than their fair value and producers are benefiting from subsidies from Beijing.