Kent Harrington, Former senior CIA analyst, National Intelligence Officer for East Asia
May 15, 2018
What a friend China has in Trump.
Ryan Hass, David M. Rubenstein Fellow, Brookings Institution
May 03, 2018
Many countries, not just the United States, are disadvantaged by China’s unfair trade practices. Rather than confront the challenge alone, the United States should work to address the problem as a team sport. Doing so would be more effective and less costly than hoping U.S.-China tit-for-tat tariffs do not do significant harm to American workers, but do lead to a change in China’s economic policies.
Hua Xin, PhD, CASS Graduate School
Apr 23, 2018
There is a strong economic and strategic case for the US to return to the TPP.
Ben Reynolds, Writer and Foreign Policy Analyst in New York
Apr 19, 2018
The Trump administration has come back around to the TPP for the same reasons that the Obama administration pushed the deal in the first place: its use as a bargaining chip in the struggle for Asian hegemony.
Lucio Blanco Pitlo III, President of Philippine Association for Chinese Studies, and Research Fellow at Asia-Pacific Pathways to Progress Foundation
Apr 06, 2018
The use of tariffs to address the United States’ trade imbalance with key trade partners will hamper longstanding U.S. economic leadership. For the U.S., addressing the trade imbalance and reviving U.S. manufacturing should not come at the expense of disrupting the established economic trade order and heightening perceptions of American exceptionalism among U.S. allies.
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.
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.
Darcie Draudt, non-resident James A. Kelly Korean Studies fellow, Pacific Forum CSIS
Mar 06, 2018
After years of difficult negotiations, KORUS went into effect in March 2012. During the Obama years, the trade deal was labeled the “gold standard” in FTAs. Since then, President Trump has threatened to withdraw the United States from it, and now wants to renegotiate it. Darcie Draudt analyzes the effect this has had on U.S.-South Korean relations.
Feb 13, 2018
Officials didn't provide details on how such a tax would be structured or what good it would apply to.