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Why China wants to join the anti-China trade deal
Last week, Beijing applied to join the CPTPP, a trade club formerly known as the TPP, which the U.S. originally designed to isolate China. Trump tore the deal up and it moved on without the U.S., but now China wants to join.
After calling Xi, Biden considers pressuring China over trade, Taiwan
A day after Joe Biden had an apparently amicable phone call with Xi Jinping, the Biden administration was reported to be considering multiple moves that would strain U.S.-China relations.
Shy smiles from the U.S. and China on trade — Yellen meets Liu
United States Secretary of the Treasury Janet Yellen met China’s top America-whisperer, Liu He, over a cordial “introductory virtual meeting.”
Pineapple becomes new symbol of prickly Taipei-Beijing relations after China bans imports
Beijing unexpectedly announced last week that it had found “pests” in Taiwanese pineapples, and banned their import. Taiwan called it an “ambush,” and drew a parallel to China’s targeting of Australian wine.
With the U.S. in its sights, China moves to restrict rare earths exports. Could cobalt be next?
New rules from China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology make clear that Beijing aims to tighten export controls on rare earth metals, a group of minerals essential to manufacturing electronics. Meanwhile, China has been on a cobalt buying binge, particularly from the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Asia-Pacific economic explainer: How the China-friendly RCEP arose after the U.S. abandoned TPP
What was the impetus for RCEP, the largest free trade agreement in the world? Was it a win for China? Why should the U.S. care about this and other Asia-Pacific trade deals? You have questions, we have answers.
Can China integrate Africa’s new free trade area with the Belt and Road?
Comments from a high-ranking official at China’s National Development and Reform Commission are the clearest signal so far that Beijing is serious about linking its own multinational trading regime with Africa’s.
China is ‘actively considering’ joining CPTPP, the trade deal that Trump rejected
Only five days after signing RCEP, one major Asian trade deal, China says that it is considering joining another: the CPTPP, a renegotiated version of the Trans-Pacific Partnership that Trump pulled the U.S. out of in 2017.
The U.S.-China trade war in the eyes of New Yorkers
It’s been one year since Donald Trump threatened to impose large-scale tariffs on China in March 2018. The first round of those tariffs went into…
In dealing with China, the U.S. can draw on a Cold War lesson: Be more open
For the U.S., the balance between openness and innovation with restrictions and control has always been essential. In its current techno-feud with China, it risks…
An end to European naivete?
Reuters reports: “The European Union on Tuesday provisionally agreed on rules for a far-reaching system to coordinate scrutiny of foreign investments into Europe, notably from…
U.S.-China gloom deepens
Our usual roundup of trade war news is here, but in case you overdosed on Zoloft or were feeling too happy today, here are a…
Chinese state media proclaims Beijing a staunch defender of free trade
When I was a boy, Communists were communists and Americans were free traders. I would not have imagined the Chinese Communist Party’s house organ, the…
Kuora: How the West views China now, China viewed the West 200-plus years ago
This week’s column comes from two of Kaiser’s answers, originally posted to Quora on December 29, 2017 and September 7, 2016. Why do some Chinese say that…
Shorting the yuan — trade war gloom and boom update
America will be barbecuing and letting off fireworks tomorrow, so it seems unlikely that a settlement will be reached between China and the U.S. to…
Beyond Trumpism: What is the ‘smart’ direction for U.S.-China relations?
Are the U.S. and China headed into a “Cold War 2.0”? Some object to the very question. Michael Swaine, a senior associate at the Carnegie…
Gloom and doom trade war update
Here is everything you need to know today from the front lines of the U.S.-China trade war: Starting on July 6, U.S. soybean imports into…
Xi Jinping takes up Trump’s challenge to a trade duel
U.S. President Donald Trump announced a week ago that he was going all in with his big bet on tariffs against China, escalating the scope…
Trade war update: Chinese investment in U.S. plummets, but yuan stays steady
The hostilities continue between the American and Chinese governments, a day after Donald Trump prepared to go all in on his tariff-first strategy. Since then…
Trade war update: ‘an unfortunate sound bite’
Peter “Death by China” Navarro, director of the White House National Trade Council, talked to NPR this morning. He remains unabashed in his China-bashing, although…
