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.
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.
Heraldo Muñoz, Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Chile
May 04, 2017
Integration, not isolation, is the key to sustainable development in a world bound ever closely together by information and transportation networks. While trade with the U.S. remains strong, a post-TPP world will require Chile to build bridges with TPP stakeholders and new partners, such as China.
Richard Kozul-Wright, Director, the Division on Globalization and Development Strategies
Daniel Poon, Economic Affairs Officer, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
May 25, 2017
China’s experiments with industrial and financial policies may end up providing emerging economies with valuable insight into how to avoid the middle-income trap. But, for a US concerned with its eroding manufacturing base, the lesson is already apparent.
Eric Harwit, Professor, University of Hawaii Asian Studies Program
May 24, 2017
In March, two leading members of the Trump administration announced that China’s ZTE Corporation would pay the largest criminal fine in U.S. sanctions history. As long as North Korea’s military program tops the U.S. foreign policy agenda with China, economic sanctions aimed at punishing Chinese corporations may take a back seat to reaching a goal of increased Chinese pressure on the North Korean regime.
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.
Zhang Monan, Deputy Director of Institute of American and European Studies, CCIEE
May 04, 2017
China-US economic and trade relations should look beyond the 100-day plan. It will mutually benefit China and the US to deepen economic, industrial and trade cooperation, and push for closer and deeper cooperation in the high-tech markets, while gradually eliminating investment barriers.
Andrew Sheng, Distinguished Fellow at the Asia Global Institute at the University of Hong Kong
Xiao Geng, President of the Hong Kong Institution for International Finance
May 04, 2017
US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi agreed to a 100-day plan for discussions on reducing the US trade deficit with China. It seemed to recognize that a stable US-China relationship is necessary to enable them to focus on their respective challenges.
Apr 18, 2017
2017 will likely be one of the most challenging years in decades for US companies in China.
Daniel R. Pearson, Senior Fellow, Trade Policy Studies, Cato Institute
Apr 13, 2017
The trade deficit is driven by U.S. government policies that influence domestic savings and investment, not by the policies of governments overseas. Unfortunately, the executive order seems premised on the mistaken notion that fixing trade-distorting policies of other countries would reduce the U.S. trade deficit.