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.
Jan 23, 2018
Trump slaps steep tariffs on imported washing machines and solar panels. South Korea said it would complaint to WTO, while China branded the move an overreaction.
Minxin Pei, Tom and Margot Pritzker ’72 Professor of Government , Claremont McKenna College
May 25, 2017
When US President Donald Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) this past January, many observers saw that decision as a boon for China. East Asia countries can no longer count on US-supplied public goods to maintain peace and deliver prosperity, they will face some tough choices.
Daniel Ikenson, Director, Cato Institute’s Herbert A. Stiefel Center for Trade Policy Studies
May 15, 2017
Affirmative findings would give the president statutory authority to raise import barriers to protect domestic sources. But invoking national security to justify protectionism is an extreme measure—the “nuclear option” of international trade law—that would generate some undesirable consequences for U.S.-China relations, as well as for the rules-based trading system itself.
Yu Xiang, Senior Fellow, China Construction Bank Research Institute
Apr 27, 2017
Trump’s election campaign promises and and the executive orders the new president signed after he came into the White House reveal a narrow-minded, conservative and selfish United States. It’s a startling reversal of the country’s outlook for six decades, and completely outdated.
Jun 03, 2016
The U.S. and China, facing mounting political pressures at home, are seeing economic tensions flare to their worst point in years over currency and trade practices.
Nov 24, 2015
In their first top-level trade talks since President Obama hosted China’s leader in September, the United States and China said on Monday that they had made progress on sticking points, including preventing the theft of trade secrets and opening the Chinese market more broadly to American multinationals.