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1 week ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Craig Singleton |James Palmer |Bob Davis
Beijing and Washington seem in no mood to back down or betray weakness as they ramp up tariffs on each other. How much will it actually hurt their respective economies? How far will Beijing go to counter U.S. President Donald Trump? And will U.S. protectionism impact how the world engages with China? Join FP Live for a discussion with two experts.
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1 month ago | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Bob Davis |James Crabtree
Donald Trump has engineered stark changes in U.S. foreign policy, particularly on relations with Europe and on the issues of trade and immigration. But what about China? How does the new president’s China policy differ from that of the Biden administration’s? Does Washington’s shifting relationship with Brussels create an opening for Beijing? Rush Doshi helped shape and execute the Biden administration’s China policy.
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Sep 10, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Bob Davis
United States China Shortly before the U.S. presidential race turned upside down (the attempted assassination of Republican nominee Donald Trump) and upside down again (President Joe Biden dropping out) and upside down again (Vice President Kamala Harris surging in polls compared to Biden), the president made a decision that upended decades of Democratic White House rule. He ordered heavy new tariffs on Chinese imports of high-tech items and continued the massive tariffs he inherited from his...
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Aug 26, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Colum Lynch |Robbie Gramer |Edward Alden |Bob Davis
If former U.S. President Donald Trump wins the White House again, what might his foreign policy look like? The Republican candidate often shoots from the hip—consider his grand declaration that he can end the Russia-Ukraine war in a single day as just one example. Trump is also quick to distance himself from policy shop documents, such as the Heritage Foundation’s Project 2025, when they become politically inconvenient.
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Jun 22, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Bob Davis
Economics China One of the enduring mysteries of China’s economic rise is why the country’s extended engagement with Western capitalism and democracy didn’t diminish the role of the state and lead to greater political and economic liberalization.
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May 6, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Dana Sherne |Joseph Stiglitz |Bob Davis |Hannah Ryder
In the last two decades, with the global financial crisis and then the COVID-19 pandemic, countries began to worry globalization would expose them to too many risks. Nations are turning inward; many are investing in industrial policies, near-shoring, and economic independence instead of the integration and free trade that marked the second half of the 20th century. Should the world reconsider the case for globalization?
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Bob Davis
Economics United States China The Biden White House has put together the most ambitious industrial policy program in decades, hoping to revive strategic industries that have withered at home because of foreign competition.
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Oct 28, 2023 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Bob Davis
Let’s start by crediting Mathias Döpfner with good intentions. Döpfner, the CEO of German publishing giant Axel Springer SE, says that he wrote The Trade Trap: How to Stop Doing Business with Dictators to provide a road map to protect democracies from the likes of China and Russia and to expand the number of free nations. Let’s start by crediting Mathias Döpfner with good intentions.
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Oct 20, 2023 | 
brookings.edu | Ralph C. Bryant |Richard Bush |Bob Davis |Fred Dews
Editor's note: David Dollar was a beloved member of the Brookings family for 10 years, from 2013 until his passing on October 6, 2023. You can learn more about David’s work on the Chinese economy and U.S.-China economic relations . I have been deeply saddened by the news of David Dollar’s passing. I knew David less well than several other of our colleagues, but David was an esteemed favorite of mine.
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Oct 17, 2023 | 
foreignpolicy.com | Bob Davis
It’s lonely these days for optimists on the Chinese economy. There’s widespread agreement among American China watchers—and there are so many of them now—that China has hit hard times that are bound to get a lot worse soon. It’s lonely these days for optimists on the Chinese economy. There’s widespread agreement among American China watchers—and there are so many of them now—that China has hit hard times that are bound to get a lot worse soon.
