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China policy. And now, in the wake of a pandemic that has seen US-China

China Challenge China has gone from being rather peripheral to the UK debate on international

The current dispute between the US and China goes far beyond trade tariffs and tit-for-tat reprisals: the underlying driver is a race for global technological supremacy. This paper examines the risks of greater strategic competition as well as potential solutions for mitigating the impacts of the US–China economic confrontation.

With no end in sight for the trade tensions between the US and China, efforts to advance the circular economy in both economies are seemingly under threat.

Managing relations with China once the COVID-19 crisis abates will be one of the biggest challenges facing political leaders in the United States and Europe – two of the areas worst-hit by the virus that originated in China.

Canadian attitudes towards China have undergone a dramatic shift – from ambivalence to distrust – since the two countries became locked in a diplomatic dispute in late 2018. This paper argues that these hardened sentiments are unlikely to dissipate and Canada–China relations seem to have entered a new, warier phase.

The United States and its allies must agree on an approach to China with a clarity of purpose, resolve, and restraint. Because the China challenge will only grow over time.

Experts on both sides of the Atlantic give their perspectives on whether the pandemic has changed national understandings, narratives, and foreign policy debates on China.

The European Union’s decision to sign an investment accord makes it clear that China’s geopolitical heft and allure of trade and investment are tempting.

The growth of Chinese wealth and military power, combined with a more diplomatically and militarily active regime in Beijing, represents an epochal change in international politics.

This piece recommends a framework for strengthening US-EU trade relations and achieving successful trade talks in the current era of protectionism.

With Robert Zoellick, former president of the World Bank Group.

China’s massive infrastructure and connectivity project linking China to Europe though Eurasia - in March

China. By doing nothing and allowing the deadline to pass, China scuppered the multi-billion

China a more robust economic competitor. Without a common front of many of China’s economic

China as “revisionist powers,” warning that China seeks to “reorder the [Indo

China, the European Union and the United States. As a result, the fundamental changes in foreign

China for the coronavirus, his threat to defund the World Health Organization and his continued

China has dominated the headlines. US role in the Middle East including US presence in Iraq

This paper examines the governance problems in the monetary system and global trade and regulation. It then explores whether issues have arisen because the US has given up its dominant role, and if so how these might be rectified.

China, Asian allies like Japan – and even other Asian partners like India – will

As the coronavirus outbreak looks to increase already rising US-China tensions, the speakers outline their views on its implications for the current world order.

This paper recommends a framework for strengthening US–EU trade relations and achieving successful trade talks in the current era of protectionism. 

Many middle powers have been warning of the dangers inherent in the decline of the liberal international order. The time has come for these countries to translate their warnings into concerted action.

Though it is under political pressure, there are reasons to be hopeful about the World Trade Organization’s future.

With international institutions being questioned—ironically, by the very nations that created them—NATO’s next seventy years will be a rougher ride than the first seventy.

The COVID-19 pandemic has intensified the debate over whether authoritarian states are gaining the upper hand across the world. In contrast, democracies are showing capacity for innovation and adaptation.

United States trade representative Robert E Lighthizer provides his outlook on the future of international trading systems in a COVID-19 world.

The identity of the next US president is yet to be determined, but the foreign policy views of the American public are already clear. In principle, Americans support US engagement in the world but, in practice, they worry other countries take advantage of the United States.

The 21st-century global economy has different drivers from those in the previous century. Amid ever more politicized trade relations, economic diplomacy needs a more transparent framework.

What difference can an election make? A range of leading experts consider the most pressing foreign policy challenges for the next US president, and examine how the outcome of the 2020 election will affect these. 

China. The trade war between the US and China will continue to play out, but I am more

China. Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said in London that ‘China is coming closer to us’:  ‘We see them

China trade tensions (which will be alleviated in the near-term by the phase one trade

China and new spheres of conflict including technology, cyber and space. This summit is being

China for Latin American exports has added to the economic pain. Latin America may need

China. From the end of the Cold War, Washington reoriented its geopolitical interest away from

China, which detained two Canadians in December 2018 in apparent retaliation for Canada’s arrest

China despite rising US-China tension. It also means bridging the distance between Brazil and its European

China is the only sovereign nation that even comes close to matching the US share

China, Iran and North Korea are those that pose the greatest threat to the network

China. The president constantly attacks the press, which he claims has provoked unnecessary hysteria. Social