Op-Ed Blog
A trade war with no winners, and no good reason
Trump’s trade worldview was formed in the boom-and-bust Manhattan real estate world of the 1980s, and it has changed little. The target is different: Now China is Trump trade enemy number one, rather than Japan.
The US-EU trade war: Everybody loses!
President Trump's threat to impose car tariffs on car imports to the US has escalated the trade tension between the US and the EU, and is predicted to result in more serious damaging consequences for jobs and economic growth than similar levies on steel and aluminum.
China is ready to meet the costs of the trade war
China and the United States will inevitably both pay a price as they enter the biggest trade war in the history of the global economy. The United States' additional tariffs on 34 billion U.S. dollars worth of Chinese imports will have an impact on some Chinese enterprises. It will also impact on the lives of their employees. China's government anticipated this, which is why it didn't want to see a trade war start. But now that it has, China will fight it to the bitter end.
Appeasers cannot escape falling victim to a trade war
Since the beginning of July, several countries have taken retaliatory measures against the trade war ignited by the Trump administration.
'Death by China' or uncovered hostility toward China?
US President Donald Trump's arguments on his trade provocations against China, America's allies and neighbors, can be found in the book "Death by China."
Five potential ways the US loses out through a trade war
The escalation of trade conflicts triggered by the United States has brought many uncertainties to its ties with China and to the world economy, as a whole.
Rational approach is key to resolving the current trade rift
Amidst escalating trade tensions, the US and China should maintain a calm and rational approach.
Marketization reform is the ultimate approach to the trade war
Donald Trump has just formally kicked off the trade war. The unprecedented trade war in the history of the mankind has been lingering over the head of China for at least 4 months since the Trump administration first threatened to impose punitive tariffs against Chinese goods on March 8, 2017.
How China, US can avert trade war decades in the making
After studying US-China trade relations for the past 40 years, I believe that the current tensions between the two are such that we should not only focus on the past or the future, but also the present.
Method behind the madness, Trump's trade terrorism
With his latest trade tariffs, Donald Trump has instituted an economic and political war on not just China, but the countries that represent approximately 60 percent of the world's GDP. Trump's battle cry is, "Make America Great Again," but how an economic and political trade war will achieve this is unclear.
Trump's trade war is ushering in the 'Pegasus' era!
As Thomas Paine once said, “These are the times that try men’s souls!” US President Donald Trump is waging an all-out trade war against the entire world, America's allies included, under what he calls the “America First” cause.
How should the world react to Trump’s obstinacy?
The first shot was fired in the China-US trade war on July 6. The destiny of the world economy is determined by the choice of the countries around the globe.
Trump’s futile attempt to establish a self-centric world order
As Trump attempts to construct a new world order in light of the America First complex, he is doomed to fail. He is attempting to build a house on sand.
"America First" policies threaten trade mechanisms
There is widespread concern about the consequences of the US-China trade war, including the threat that Trump's "America First" policies pose to the multilateral trading system.
China does not need to steal technologies from the U.S.
In a recent CNBC interview, Larry Summers, the former Clinton Treasury secretary, and an ex-economic advisor to Barack Obama, said Chinese companies’ leadership in some technologies are not the result of theft from the U.S.
America's trade war troika
United States tariffs on 34 billion U.S. dollars worth of imports from China have officially taken effect, and China has responded in-kind with retaliatory tariffs. A trade war between the world's two largest economies has begun.
United States "trade bullying" doomed to fail
China is not alone in this fight. The European Union, Canada, Mexico, India, and Turkey have already started wars of self-defense against American trade policy. The forces working against the bullying of the United States are growing stronger.
Recycling the tired "China Threat Theory" as "Economic Aggression"
The trade frictions between the United States and China are turning into a full-blown trade war. For months, the United States has employed tactics of intimidation, threatening to impose tariffs on China worth tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars, accusing China of "economic aggression".
Chinese meritocracy: nothing to fear, so much to learn
Open a newspaper in almost any country today, and you are bound to come across a story or a debate about Chinese overseas investments.
Perhaps the White House would care to explain what ‘economic aggression’ is
On June 19th, the White House released a report entitled "How China's Economic Aggression Threatens the Technologies and Intellectual Property of the United States and the World".