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Whoever Wins the US Election Won’t Change Asia’s Economic Strategies Towards America

Peter Drysdale & Liam Gammon | East Asia Forum | 10/27/2024

The triumph of Donald Trump in the 2016 US presidential election fundamentally changed how the economic policy strategists in East Asia and the Pacific must think about the US role…

Quotas Can Work Better Than Tariffs to Reshore Production

Jeff Ferry | Coalition for a Prosperous America | 10/24/2024

Tariffs are becoming widely accepted by U.S...

Navigating Protectionism’s Trade Barriers

Jill Hurley | Livingston | 07/10/2024

There was a glorious time not long ago when corporate decision makers and small ...

Are Americans Ready for the U.S.-China Trade War?

Kenneth Rogoff | Project Syndicate | 07/08/2024

The China trade shock of the 1990s and 2000s is widely blamed f...

The Dangerous Retreat Into Protectionism

Carl Bildt | The Strategist | 05/31/2024

Trade barriers, tariffs and other protectionist tools are starting to feature mo...

Free Trade: the Strongest Spell Against Economic Decline

Glen Hodgson and Brooke Medina | RealClearWire | 03/07/2023

In J.K. Rowling’s novel “Harry Potter and the...

Global Trade and Politics, Managing Turbulence

Ron Bancroft | The Courier-Gazette | 02/23/2023

The good news is that the Camden Conference is back in person. The ...

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