Not seeing eye to eye
Concern about trade negotiations between the largest global markets should be mounting when short-term ‘deals’ leave structural disagreements for another day
Exposure to US-China Trade
CFIUS - Mission Impossible ?
By tightening the controls over the acquisition of US technological companies, America will delay China's build-up in advanced technologies. But postponement is not a long-term strategy : foreign companies in China might be exposed to an uncertain future
Trade Wars - a reality check
Because domestic US production of many consumer products has been abandoned and many industrial supply chains dismantled, the conflicted trade negotiations between China and the US remain focused on very specific industry segments
Trade is War – and the fight regional
Trade has never been free, even though globalization has powered economic growth around the world. With China a major player at every level from the most labor-intensive industry to the most advanced, emerging markets are being squeezed out
Dining out with China...
Reading facial expressions...the official dinner photo of the meeting between US and China top representatives, following the G20 meeting in Argentina, December 2018, seems to be telling
Trade, intellectual property and geopolitics
As the tariff conflict between the US and China spills over into unfair trade practices, geopolitical competition in the Asia – Pacific basin comes to the fore, setting in motion a slow, but inescapable, economic decoupling between the two countries