Jun 01, 2016
The US-China Business Council writes that instead of building protectionist walls, the U.S. should boost exports to China—the fastest growing market in the world—by pursuing policies that reduce the trade and market access barriers that China uses to keep out American manufactured goods, services, and agriculture products. The U.S. should also take steps to boost worker education and training, and improve competitiveness to ensure that America continues to have a strong economy.
Doug Bandow, Senior Fellow, Cato Institute
May 26, 2016
Donald Trump’s supposed 45 percent tariff on Chinese imports would punish American consumers, violate international trade rules, and ignite a trade war. However, given when a Chinese company pays top dollar to acquire a public U.S. company, shareholders generally receive cash in excess of the stock price, which goes right to the pockets of U.S. households and retirees.
Sourabh Gupta, Senior Fellow, Institute for China-America Studies
May 24, 2016
The U.S. Treasury department has released a report on currency policy and trade between its major partners, selectively picking rules from the IMF’s list of currency manipulations actions to its advantage. To fix the porous global currency system, the Obama Administration should sit down with China and re-write multilateral rules and create a diverse supply of safe globally traded assets.
He Weiwen, Senior Fellow, Center for China and Globalization, CCG
May 12, 2016
Increasing US technology and equipment exports to China would not only helping Chinese industrial upgrading, but also help US production in a time of sliding Chinese demand for US goods. Finalizing a bilateral investment treaty and closer collaboration between both governments and business to clinch more PPP projects in US infrastructure investments also would benefit both countries.
Ben Reynolds, Writer and Foreign Policy Analyst in New York
Mar 31, 2016
The manufacturing jobs that the U.S. lost in the preceding decades did not move on to China – they no longer exist. There is no way to bring back these jobs as machines can do them better, and cheaper, than any American worker. The solution to our present dilemma certainly isn’t a manufacturing revival, but it may be a 20-hour workweek.
Yu Xiang, Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute
Feb 16, 2016
The US dollar’s appreciation is driven by the US economy’s recovery and the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy normalizing, not the recent turmoil in China’s stock market or its shrinking demand for oil. The US should encourage China to stick to its reform plan and introduce more of its experience on risk control and crisis management to China.
Curtis S. Chin, Former U.S. Ambassador to Asian Development Bank
Nov 13, 2015
Should China finally move to better police both the makers and the distributors of counterfeit and shoddy products, the nation’s leaders could also take a page from California’s experiences and do more to seek to spur innovation, rather than imitation.
Hugh Stephens, Distinguished Fellow, Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada
Oct 08, 2015
Despite President Xi Jinping’s efforts to assuage the concerns of U.S. business executives while in Seattle, Hugh Stephens argues that these statements don’t reflect reality—that China imposes a much wider range of restrictions on U.S. investors than is the case for Chinese investment in the US.
Dan Steinbock, Founder, Difference Group
Sep 24, 2015
Thanks to misguided stories about President Xi’s reforms, America risks losing the opportunity to participate appropriately in China’s massive economic rebalancing and reform drive.
Sep 23, 2015
A group of Chinese companies signed here Tuesday a deal with U.S. plane maker Boeing to buy 300 Boeing aircraft.