Zheng Yu, Professor, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Jul 12, 2017
it seems that the tough approach on the South China Sea was more a campaign strategy than a policy plan. Like previous administrations, the Trump team sees armed conflict between China and the US as a losing proposition for all sides, and issues of economy, trade and the South China Sea better managed by cooperation than confrontation.
Wei Liang, Professor, Middlebury Institute of International Studies
Jul 04, 2017
As long as China continues to carry out its export-driven economic growth model through its strong state capitalism, then the U.S. business community will still have to face trade protectionism through non-tariff barriers, industrial policy, subsidies, and currency manipulation.
Susan Ariel Aaronson, Research Professor of International Affairs, Elliott School of International Affairs, GWU
Jul 03, 2017
Despite years of protectionist polices put into action by its government, the American steel industry continues to flounder. As President Trumps launches a new protectionist agenda under the guise of national security imperatives, he continues to ignore the problems that truly plague U.S. steel.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Jun 30, 2017
The new rapprochement between Brussels and Beijing involves converging economic interests between Europe and China – and diverging strategic interests between Europe and America. While the shift was conceptualized as a reaction to a policy vacuum created by Trump, in reality, the ties between Brussels and Beijing have grown steadily since the 1990s, even when U.S.-Chinese ties have fallen under pressure.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
Jun 29, 2017
As economic and trade relations between these two great nations evolves toward benign interaction, both countries should transcend the 100-Day Economic Plan and promote implementation of a post-100-day plan. In terms of broad prospects for cooperation, they should deepen industrial cooperation to promote the integration of a range of high-quality factors of production and innovative resources.
Chen Yonglong, Director of Center of American Studies, China Foundation for International Studies
Jun 23, 2017
Traveling in each other’s company and benefiting each other should be the form and path to effective China-U.S. cooperation, as building a community of shared future for all mankind requires partners with shared objectives instead of fellow travelers who meet by chance and lack mutual trust.
Christopher A. McNally, Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University
Jun 09, 2017
Outcomes fromU.S.-China trade talks that were recently announced ignored the major structural issues facing U.S.-China economic relations. While a trade deal was produced, the major point of contention between the two countries, that they practice deeply divergent forms of capitalism, was ignored. In order to truly make progress on trade between the U.S. and China mutual understanding of the different dynamics driving the two forms of capitalism is needed.
Sampson Oppedisano, Executive Assistant to the Dean, The Milano School of International Affairs, Management and Urban Policy
May 31, 2017
One of Jared Kushner’s business, Kushner Companies, has been urging Chinese investors to invest in several of his high-end luxury projects. In exchange for this investment, investors would be eligible for the EB-5 Visa Program and could immigrate to the United States. This visa is part of federal program that does grant visas to investors but use of the program is troublesome if promoted by someone as close to the President as Jared, especially if used for personal gain.
Tom Watkins, President and CEO of the Economic Council of Palm Beach County, FL
May 29, 2017
Governments at the national, state, and local levels have an important role to play in building economic bridges with China. In an era where the Chinese continue to seek places throughout the world to invest their new wealth, Michigan should be attempting to make America an economic magnet for such investment and job growth for the American worker.
Christopher A. McNally, Professor of Political Economy, Chaminade University
May 24, 2017
The Mar-a-Lago meeting between presidents Trump and Xi has started to generate concrete results, the recently announced trade agreement between the countries shows. However, the transactional approach risks leading to an impasse; it needs to be buttressed by more fundamental deals, such as the US-China Bilateral Investment Treaty.