Most worrying is what Maurice Obstfeld at the Peterson Institute recently called “a deep distrust of economic openness” – a bipartisan consensus that the open trade which has been nurtured …
Since the last European Parliament elections in 2019, the political trajectory of several far-right parties has altered dramatically. The Alternative for Germany (AfD), a party which harbours neo-Nazis, has now …
For Romer, though, waiting for AI to push worker productivity growth to new heights is a fool’s errand. The surest way to growth, he said, is foreign direct investment (FDI). …
US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has just been to China to complain about its overcapacity, subsidies and dumping in the global market. Plainly, this attack is aimed at justifying America’s …
In a related move on Wednesday, Biden directed US Trade Representative Katherine Tai to start an investigation under Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 into China’s alleged subsidies …
Former President and current candidate Donald Trump directed promises of potentially economically devastating tariffs toward China and Mexico during a rally at the Dayton, Ohio airport on Saturday. The twice-impeached …
The reality is that the rich West is turning inward, building up fences along trade, finance, digital, migration and military lines. The EU Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism, to be implemented …
The European Union’s move to implement the world’s first tax on carbon-intensive imports from 2026 could badly hit Chinese steel and aluminium makers, according to Goldman Sachs. The 27-nation bloc …
In Oscar Wilde’s masterful play The Importance of Being Earnest, first performed in 1895, Lady Bracknell famously says that “to lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune, to …
The European Union launched an investigation into the recent “flood” of Chinese-built electric vehicles this week. European Commission President Urula von der Leyen unveiled discussions that Chinese EV makers are …