Dianzan Li

Jun 7, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Robert G Patman |Qisheng Wu |Dianzan Li |Gary Clyde Hufbauer

Despite increasingly strong warnings from Chinese officials, New Zealand’s National Party-led coalition government is continuing to actively explore the prospect of joining Pillar II of AUKUS. In September 2021, the governments of Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom announced the formation of AUKUS, an enhanced security partnership intended to bolster the international rules-based order in the Indo-Pacific.

Jun 5, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Qisheng Wu |Gary Clyde Hufbauer |Chansambath Bong |Dianzan Li

The Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States (CFIUS) was established in the 1970s by the US Department of Treasury as a mechanism to address national security risks associated with cross-border capital flows. While historically focused on scrutinising foreign investment activities within US borders, recent developments might precipitate an unprecedented shift in this operational paradigm.

Jun 2, 2024 | eastasiaforum.org | Gary Clyde Hufbauer |Robert G Patman |Qisheng Wu |Dianzan Li

A century ago, the Republican Congress passed the Fordney–McCumber Tariff of 1922. This post-First World War effort to protect the United States from German competition and rescue business from falling prices sparked a global wave of tariff hikes. While long forgotten, echoes of Fordney–McCumber now reverberate across the US political landscape.