Economic Diplomacy

UAE Resets a Decade of Muscular Foreign Policy

Simeon Kerr and Andrew England, Financial Times | Photo by Kamil Rogalinski on Unsplash For a decade, the United Arab Emirates has been...

China Is Using Vaccines To Push Its Agenda In Latin America, and the U.S. Is Behind the Curve

Dan De Luce, NBC News | Photo by Daniel Schludi on Unsplash China is using Covid-19 vaccines to push its political and trade agenda...

Economic Policy for a Pandemic Age: How the World Must Prepare

Peterson Institute for International Economics| In this PIIE Briefing, PIIE scholars set out some key lessons of the current response to...

Data Is Power

Matthew J. Slaughter & David H. McCormick, Foreign Affairs | Data is now at the center of global trade. For decades, international trade...

Science Diplomacy and its Opportunities in Southeast Asia

Winston Michalak, International Policy Digest | The Fourth Industrial Revolution is here. Southeast Asian nations, in particular, have...

Russia and China Are Beating The U.S. At Vaccine Diplomacy

Alexander Smith, NBC News| Although Beijing and Moscow deny it, experts say they are beginning to see how the strategy of selling or...

Janet Yellen’s New Financial Multilateralism

Paola Subacchi, Project Syndicate| In a recent letter to her G20 colleagues, US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen called for stronger...

India considers long-term economic ties with the Philippines, to boost Indo-Pacific initiative

Nayanima Basu, The Print | India is making rapid inroads in the Philippines by establishing long-term trade and economic ties even as it...

Euro-Mediterranean Assembly hears calls for Support for Food Security in the Mediterranean

Antoinette Tyrrell, European Views| A plenary session of the Euro-Mediterranean Regional and Local Assembly (ARLEM), today heard calls...

China’s top diplomat says Beijing seeks to U.S. to join forces on new energy and new technologies

Amber Wang, SCMP | Politburo member Yang Jiechi says China puts itself forward to help writing new global rules. China has talked up the...

How China’s green finance slowdown threatens global climate ambitions

Mathias Lund Larsen, SCMP | Growth in China’s green financing, even for its much-touted green bonds, appears to be stalling, as...

Three Tensions in Biden’s International Economic Policy

Matthew P. Goodman, CSIS| With strategic perspective and process discipline, the Biden administration should be able to reconcile the...

London Calling for Military Tech Cooperation

Jon Harper, National Defense | With extra money in its coffers for modernization, the U.K. Ministry of Defence is looking for additional...

Russia, China to sign agreement on international lunar research station

Andrew Jones, SpaceNews | Russia is preparing to sign a memorandum of understanding with China to cooperate on a vision for an...

Fiscal Policy and the Post-COVID-19 Recovery

Neil Shearing, Chatham House| This paper examines the fiscal challenges policymakers across the globe face in the context of COVID-19, in...

Norway, the UK and Canada are not climate champions. They are climate hypocrites

Ivana Kottasová, CNN| Much of the environmental innovation that Norway is so proud of is financed by its oil money. Because Norway, apart...

Here’s why China’s trade deal with Mauritius matters

Lauren Johnston, Marc Lanteigne World Economic Forum | Beijing approaches regional trade policies via small states first, such as New...

Economic Diplomacy is a Key Part of Modern Diplomatic Practices: Qureshi Holds Virtual Meeting with

The Nation| Pakistan's Foreign Minister, Shah Mehmood Qureshi, encouraged envoys to cultivate and broaden mutually beneficial trade and...

Last Oil Company Standing: President Biden’s Executive Actions Could Drive New Round Of Major Merger

Dan Eberhart, Forbes | It sounds counterintuitive but a mega-merger between oil giants Exxon Mobil and Chevron could provide big...

Russia’s Losing Bet on China in a Post-COVID World

Nicholas Trickett, The Diplomat | China’s economic maturation into a consumer economy is a gut punch to Russia’s economic model. While...

Decade of patience: How China became a power in the Western Balkans

Vladimir Shopov, ECFR | China has become the most prominent third actor in the Western Balkans. The country’s activities are spread...

Rebuilding the global economy

Adam S. Posen, Peterson Institute for International Economics | Rebuilding the global economy is essential to addressing many...

Russian Campaign Promotes Homegrown Vaccine and Undercuts Rivals

The New York Times| Russian news outlets connected to election disinformation campaigns in the United States have set their sights on a...

3 reasons why embracing the circular economy can be powerful for middle income countries

Maria Carolina Schmidt Zaldívar - World Economic Forum | Wherever you live, a circular transition is crucial to building a resilient...

Trade in the Time of Pandemics

Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala - Think Global Health | All of humanity faces a common foe, a pathogen that has no respect for borders and rides...

MENA Unbound: Ten Years after the Arab Spring, Avoiding Another Lost Decade

Ferid Belhaj, World Bank | The “Arab Spring” led to the fall of governments in Egypt, Libya, and Yemen. But as we now know, the wave...

International Donors Are Complicit in Middle Eastern Elites’ Game

David Linfield, Carnegie | By pushing economic liberalization in the Middle East without requiring transparency and fighting corruption,...

China, EU complete long talks over bilateral investment treaty

GT staff reporters, Global Times | China and the EU have completed negotiations over an epic bilateral investment treaty (BIT), signaling...

With Brexit, the UK may be bolstering the EU and seeding its own disintegration

Andrew Hammond, SCMP | While the 2020s could see a more federal, centralised European Union, the opposite may be true for the UK. With...

Brexit 'big bang' to trigger tectonic trading rift in Europe

Huw Jones and Tommy Wilkes, Reuters | Europe will see its biggest transfer of share trading in more than two decades when stock exchanges...

UK-EU Brexit trade deal at a glance

Anna Isaac, Elenor Mears & Barbara Moens, Politico | The deal between the U.K. and the EU is the largest bilateral trade pact in history,...

A Cure for the Brexit Trade Blues

Ibrahim Khan, Foreign Policy | The United Kingdom will need new alliances beyond its current relationships, the Commonwealth as an entity...

Agrifood Brief, Special Edition: A closer look at EU agrifood trade

Gerardo Fortuna and Natasha Foote, EURACTIV | In the wake of the coronavirus pandemic, the importance of creating resilient food systems...

Microsoft and 12 others join Amazon's climate change initiative

Kris Holt, Engadget | Microsoft and 12 other companies have joined Amazon's Climate Pledge, which is a commitment to hit net zero carbon...

Tech Giants and Social Media Need Smart Regulation

Jason Furman, The Wall Street Journal | The antitrust cases against Google and now Facebook are a welcome reinvigoration of the...

Major Companies Call on Biden to Act on Climate Change

Nick Sobczyk, Scientific American | Utilities, banks and car makers signed a statement urging the President-elect and Congress to enact...

Promoting European strategic sovereignty in Asia

Janka Oertel & Andrew Small, ECFR | Europe is debating about further diversifying its economic relationships beyond China as a result of...

Why German industry is looking past China to the rest of Asia

Frederick Kliem, Nikkei Asia | Germany has been heavily invested in China, not just in terms of capital but in an unsuccessful gamble on...

Jeff Bezos Earth Fund gives $12 million to NDN Collective for climate change initiatives

Journal staff, Rapid City Journal | Jeff Bezos, billionaire Amazon CEO, gave $12 million from his Bezos Earth Fund to Rapid City-based...

Cambodia’s aim in trade deals: keep the US and Japan close, but China closer

Maria Siow, SCMP | Phnom Penh is negotiating a raft of free-trade agreements, but the pacts are not expected to lessen its reliance on...

Biden, Grand Strategy & Infrastructure - Global Leadership And A $2.7 Trillion Market

Norman Anderson, Forbes | The absence of infrastructure from the U.S. grand strategy is a fatal flaw. Without a strong foundation at...

U.S., Taiwan to Push an Alternative to China’s Belt and Road

Miaojung Lin & Chris Horton, Bloomberg | An informal U.S.-led alliance to provide an alternative to China’s Belt and Road Initiative will...

Who gains from RCEP, Asia’s new trade pact?

The Economist | The world’s newest and biggest regional trade deal is not the deepest. It eliminates fewer tariffs than normal, and some...

China may join trade pact that replaced Trans-Pacific Partnership, Xi Jinping tells APEC

Amanda Lee, SCMP | China will actively consider joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement (CPTPP),...

What could a good green recovery plan actually look like?

Fiona Harvey, Gaurdian| While some countries – notably the EU, and especially member states France and Germany – have emphasised a push...

Can Europe Recover Its Youth?

Elisabeth Von Hammerstein, Claudia Gamon &Yana Ehm, Project Syndicate| Many young Europeans today are disappointed and frustrated by the...

Govt mulls easing rules for border nation FDI

Yogima Seth Sharma & Deepshikha Sikarwar, Economic Times | After regulating foreign direct investment and abandoning the Regional...

Has Covid changed ESG investing?

Aamina Zafar, Financial Times | Terence Moll argued that technology, regulation and client demand will continue to drive investors’...

There’s no need for panic over China’s trade threats

James Laurenceson, The Conversation| With China’s purchasing power over the next decade forecast to grow more than that of the US, Japan,...

Asia-Pacific Nations Set to Sign Massive Regional Trade Deal

Sebastian Strangio, The Diplomat | The creation of the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership will leave the U.S. sitting on the...