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Feb 5, 2025 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Elliott Abrams |Jonathan Miller |James M. Lindsay |Peter Harrell
Earlier this week, it appeared as if the Trump administration was going to follow through on its threat to impose a sweeping 25 percent tariff across the board on Canadian exports to the United States. Canada owes the United States “a lot of money, and I'm sure they're going to pay,” President Donald Trump claimed. “We may have, short term, some little pain, and people understand that.
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Jan 30, 2025 | 
carnegieendowment.org | Peter Harrell
U.S. policymakers need to develop a more systematic and comprehensive framework for managing the data security and influence risks that come from cross-border data flows, Chinese software, and connected devices.
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Jan 6, 2025 | 
nationalinterest.org | Kaush Arha |Peter Harrell
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Subscribe to RSS Print Topic: Security Region: Global Governance Tags: ChinaTrade DealsTariffsDonald TrumpBelt And Road InitiativeSupply Chains The new global trading order will be less focused on low-cost production and more focused on economic security, trade balance, and increased domestic manufacturing.
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Dec 19, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Peter Harrell
President-elect Donald Trump campaigned on a promise of a trade war more extensive than anything Americans have seen in decades. His proposals include a new 20 percent “universal” tariff on all foreign imports and hiking tariffs on China to 60 percent. In the six weeks since he won a second term, he has used social media to threaten tariffs against Canada, Mexico, the BRICS—a nine-member bloc of countries founded by Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa—and other targets.
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Oct 28, 2024 | 
ajc.com | Peter Harrell
Former President Donald Trump campaigns on two big foreign policy ideas: tariffs and peace. Unfortunately for Americans, Trump’s tariffs would hit hard in the wallet, and his plan to cut deals with America’s enemies would raise the odds of the “World War III” he claims to be saving us from. Start with Trump’s tariffs. There is a place for targeted tariffs to protect strategic industries and to push back on China’s unfair trade practices.
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Jun 27, 2024 | 
cnas.org | Emily Kilcrease |Geoffrey Gertz |Adam Tong |Peter Harrell
On June 26, CNAS hosted an event to discuss a new report, Disorderly Conduct: How U.S.-China Competition Upended the International Economic Order and What the United States Can Do to Fix It. Report authors shared key findings and recommendations on how to delineate a new economic strategic framework toward China that serves both the security and commercial interests of the United States.
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Feb 26, 2024 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Peter Harrell |Carl Minzner |James M. Lindsay
As the U.S. presidential election approaches, President Joe Biden and former President Donald Trump have found common cause in their opposition to new trade deals. In the final months of 2023, the Biden administration postponed a decision on the trade pillar for the long-planned Indo-Pacific Economic Framework (IPEF) and withdrew longstanding U.S. support for digital trade provisions at the World Trade Organization.
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Dec 14, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Shannon K. O'Neil |Zongyuan Liu |Peter Harrell |Adam Posen
Xi Jinping in His Own WordsWhat China’s Leader Wants—and How to Stop Him From Getting It
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Dec 13, 2023 | 
almendron.com | Peter Harrell
China’s emergence as the United States’ leading rival has upended long-standing tenets of international economic policy. For decades, policymakers in Washington assumed that economic engagement would draw Beijing into the Western order while providing business opportunities for U.S. companies. Thus, the United States pressed China to open its market to U.S. investors, accepting in return that at least some types of U.S. manufacturing would move to China.
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Dec 12, 2023 | 
foreignaffairs.com | Peter Harrell |James M. Lindsay |Kat Duffy
China’s emergence as the United States’ leading rival has upended long-standing tenets of international economic policy. For decades, policymakers in Washington assumed that economic engagement would draw Beijing into the Western order while providing business opportunities for U.S. companies. Thus, the United States pressed China to open its market to U.S. investors, accepting in return that at least some types of U.S. manufacturing would move to China.
