TPP keeps the internet’s rules liberal
Author: Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute There has been a good deal of hype touting the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as the first ‘21st century’ trade...
View ArticleA WTO challenge to China’s internet censorship is long overdue
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI For the first time this year, the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) ‘National Trade Estimate Report’ took note of China’s Great Firewall. Granted, it was with...
View ArticleHow Trump’s trade policy is dividing Republicans
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI No issue better illustrates the agony and self-inflicted wounds in the Republican Party than the Trump-inspired clashes over the future of US trade policy. While the...
View ArticleThe TPP: more than a trade agreement
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI US Secretary of Defence Ashton Carter has called the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) the equivalent of a ‘second aircraft carrier’. Secretary of State John Kerry has warned...
View ArticleAre US security officials rethinking Huawei’s status?
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI Chinese telecommunications giant Huawei currently competes with industry leaders to provide structural telecommunications equipment — the backbone of the internet — to...
View ArticleChina should be granted market economy status
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI 11 December 2016 marks an important deadline: according to rules established by the WTO for Chinese membership, WTO members must stop treating Beijing as a ‘non-market...
View ArticleTime for Trump to hit back at China’s new cybersecurity law
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI The Trump administration should immediately confront Chinese leaders over China’s recently enacted cybersecurity law. The new law came into force on 1 June, having been...
View ArticleTPP a model for NAFTA digital trade rules
Author: Claude Barfield, AEI Early in 2018, the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) negotiations will enter a final make-or-break phase. At this point, the chances that the United States,...
View ArticleExperts back tough US stance on China
Author: Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute The Trump administration holds a great many economically erroneous and politically demagogic views on trade — that trade policy can change trade...
View ArticleIn search of a US-Indo-Pacific economic policy
Author: Claude Barfield, American Enterprise Institute Entering its second year, the Biden administration has failed to produce a coherent economic policy for the Indo-Pacific. Meanwhile, two major...
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