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Jun 28, 2019

Tran in The Financial Times: Two proposals for WTO reform

By Atlantic Council

China International Financial Institutions

Inflection Points

Jun 27, 2019

Special G20 edition: Historic test for a world adrift

By Frederick Kempe

The nineteen leaders of the world’s largest economies and the European Union gather as history’s tectonic plates shift underneath them.

China Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jun 27, 2019

The United States has few good options when it comes to India’s plans to purchase a Russian missile defense system

By Sameer Ali Khan

Despite US pressure and the threat of sanctions, the Indian government has no plans to scrap a deal to purchase the Russian S-400 air and missile defense system.

India Missile Defense

New Atlanticist

Jun 27, 2019

The Trump-Xi summit and beyond

By Robert Hormats

How the relationship between the United States and China is managed now and in the coming months and years will be the central international economic, political, and strategic issue of our era.

China Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jun 26, 2019

Can Xi and Trump pause their trade war in Osaka?

By David A. Wemer

Trump and Xi could be looking for another G20 breakthrough when they meet on June 29.

China Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jun 26, 2019

US-China trade war: The issues ahead of the Trump-Xi meeting

By Robert Hormats

Perhaps the best we can hope for would be agreement on a few items as a show of progress and good faith, and a commitment not to take further adverse actions against one another for a designated period of time while negotiations continue.

China Economy & Business

UkraineAlert

Jun 25, 2019

Hard talk

By Melinda Haring

“Some of the greatest Ukrainian patriots aren’t even Ukrainian,” the eminently quotable public intellectual Yevhen Hlibovotsky is fond of saying. While he didn’t have John Sung Kim in mind, he might have. Kim, forty-five, is a wealthy Korean-American entrepreneur who built and sold two companies (one IPO, one all cash sale) in Silicon Valley before […]

Entrepreneurship Inclusive Growth

New Atlanticist

Jun 25, 2019

How the US-China trade war could impact US-EU negotiations and the WTO

By Robert Hormats

The full scope and depth of the impact of a prolonged US-China trade war have yet to be fully understood. This is economic terra incognita.

China Economy & Business

New Atlanticist

Jun 25, 2019

The global implications of an all-out trade war

By Robert Hormats

An all-out trade war between the United States and China will slow growth not only in these two countries, but also in countries that sell substantial amounts of goods in both markets—which means most countries in the world.

China Economy & Business

Report

Jun 25, 2019

Diplomacy surrounding the Korean peninsula

By Taisuke Mibae and James L. Schoff

For more than half a century, the US-Japan and US-ROK alliances have played critical roles for maintenance and enhancement of peace and security in Northeast Asia, the entire Asia-Pacific region, and even the world. The future course of US-North Korea and inter-Korea negotiations over denuclearization and building a peace regime on the Korean Peninsula is […]

Korea Missile Defense

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