The March 22-28, 2021 roundup of major trade developments, with L.C. China’s confrontation with the US and its allies intensified this week, moving in a direction that may be difficult to steer away from. This week’s events followed and built upon last week’s tense US-China foreign ministers meeting in Alaska. The issue now in the […]
Outgoing administration binds incoming one only on China trade
The outgoing Trump administration has implemented a number of last minute sanctions on China but left to the Biden administration what action to take regarding a currency manipulation finding against Vietnam and whether to retaliate against countries levying a discriminatory digital services tax (DST) against US internet companies. The weekly trade report with L.C. US […]
No need to make nicey-nice with Xi Jinping for a trade deal
By trade correspondent L.C. and the editor What is one to conclude from the overwhelming victory of pro-democracy candidates in Sunday’s Hong Kong municipal elections and the publication last week in the Western press of Chinese Communist internal documents revealing the party’s incarceration of one to two million of its own Muslim population in Xinjiang? […]
