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Is China’s overseas direct investment outflanking US trade strategy?
By Stewart Paterson, Senior Research Fellow, Hinrich Foundation
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Understanding global trade
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Port congestions underscore supply chain vulnerability
20 August 2024
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Getting to yes: What’s behind the e-commerce standoff at the WTO?
13 August 2024
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Trump and trade, Part 1: How Trump hardwired 21st century US trade policy
13 August 2024
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Southeast Asia’s pathway to clean energy is all but clean
06 August 2024
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Getting to yes: The e-commerce JSI reaches landmark at the WTO
30 July 2024
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Regional cooperation can buffer global value chains against uncertainty
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EU tariffs on Chinese EVs: A climate conundrum
09 July 2024
Trade distortion and protectionism
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Trump tariffs risk global trade war
18 June 2024
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Killing MSME access to global trade
02 April 2024
Prepare to pay more for digital services
16 January 2024
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Hinrich Foundation Alumni Association
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2024 Journalists Trade Training
Taking place from 23 to 26 June in Singapore, the 2024 National Press Foundation (NPF) International Trade Fellowship journalism training workshop convened 25 Asia-based journalists in an immersion in issues related to sustainable global trade. This . . .
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Christmas ends early for Chinese exporters as Western demand slumps
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19 December 2023
As big spenders in the US and Europe seek price cuts, emerging markets in Southeast Asia and domestic consumption will become more and more important for Chinese traders, says Senior Research Fellow Stephen Olson. Overall, exports are likely to become less important as a growth engine for the Chinese economy.
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4 questions we must ask as values move to the centre of the trade agenda
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14 December 2023
A profound shift in global trade is underway, away from exclusively economic considerations towards a values-based approach to trade. While often well-intentioned, this also comes with significant complications beyond the obvious economic ramifications, Stephen Olson writes in this op-ed.
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Biden Declares Victory Over Supply Snarls Just as New Delays, Costs Emerge
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28 November 2023
Bloomberg announced their winning of the 2023 Hinrich trade reporting award. One story explored the subtle structural shifts in global commerce. Another told of how Brazil was turning to China for foreign investment. A third dug into data showing how the world is reorganizing into rival blocs.
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America’s crumbling trade initiative in Asia
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23 November 2023
There is no lack of American engagement in Asian capitals on security and geopolitics. There has been much less evidence of an economic dimension to the US’s Asian diplomacy—despite a strong desire for one across the region. Hinrich Foundation Head of Trade Policy Deborah Elms comments.
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Old photo, birthday wish, ravioli lunch: Personal diplomacy on display during Xi-Biden meeting
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17 November 2023
The many touches of personal diplomacy on display during the highly anticipated meeting between Presidents Biden and Xi are attempts to emphasise the more cooperative aspects of Sino-US relationship, noted Stephen Olson. But the fundamental points of conflict exist and will not disappear overnight.
Global Trade Review 2024 Singapore
03 September 2024
Global Trade Review (GTR) Asia returns to Singapore on 3-4 September 2024. Join Deborah Elms, Head of Trade Policy at the Hinrich Foundation, as she shares her insights on international trade flows and trade security through scenario planning and ‘wargaming’ at GTR Asia 2024. Sign up here.
Evolving trade dynamics: Global imports and their role in supporting US jobs
For over a decade, US politics has blamed global trade for job losses, but data shows the US economy has recovered from the "China Shock," become more resilient, and now benefits from imports. Our partners at the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents USA interviewed experts from Georgetown University’s Lab for Globalization and Shared Prosperity on why trade was miscast as a villain in US political narrative.
The imperative of data centers
The Hinrich Foundation hosted Singapore’s Permanent Secretary at the Ministry of Trade and Industry Gabriel Lim to headline a closed-door roundtable on the imperative of data centers co-organized with the Singapore Business Circle last week. It explored the many policy tradeoffs in guiding policy and national priorities on data centers in an age of geopolitical, climate, and resource uncertainties.
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