Daniel Hamilton

2 months ago | cepa.org | Daniel Hamilton |Pablo Chavez |Matthew Eitel |Walter C. Clemens

The transatlantic partners are closer in their assessments of the China Challenge today than they were four years ago. When Donald Trump attended his first NATO summit, China was nothing more than an afterthought. NATO leaders now agree that Beijing challenges “our interests, security and values” and “present[s] systemic challenges to the rules-based international order.”  Yet transatlantic efforts to meet the China Challenge have proven ineffective.

Apr 16, 2024 | cepa.org | Daniel Hamilton

US-EU goods trade in 2023 reached $946 billion, 39% higher than the $575 billion US-China goods trade and 15% higher than the $805 billion   What’s more, trade between countries does not just consist of trade in goods. It also includes trade in services. US-EU services trade totaled $411 billion in 2022, the last year of available data. That was about six times greater than the US-China services trade of $68 billion and 3.6 times greater than the EU-China services trade of $122 billion.

Jun 29, 2023 | ip-quarterly.com | Daniel Hamilton

In Germany’s new National Security Strategy, everything is on the menu—advancing biodiversity and feminist foreign policy, enhancing crisis engagement and conventional defense, reducing dependencies, standing up for democracy and human rights, fighting aggressors abroad and extremists at home. It’s all very reasonable. That’s what makes it so disappointing.