Insights (Filter: China)
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EU Freight Cabotage: Will France Manage to Kick Eastern Europe out of the EU’s Single Market?
By: Matthias BauerCurrent EU law severely restricts the transport of goods within a Member State by a truck operator from a foreign EU country. What is known as...
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Time Is Running Out to Address Trade Frictions. For Effective WTO Reform to Happen, the US, EU and China Need to Live Up to Their Responsibilities
All three of the WTO’s functions - administering multilateral trade rules, serving as a forum for trade negotiations, and providing a mechanism to...
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China’s Digital Trade Success: Two Different Perspectives
In recent times there has been a lot of talk on how big China’s digital trade actually is and to what extent it poses a threat to the global...
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‘Appetite for Friction’ – Trump Policy Towards China
According to Frank Lavin, former US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, ‘trade negotiations should focus on managing what’s good...
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Risks to the EU from a US-China Trade Agreement
By: Sherman KatzAfter the United States imposed $250billion of tariffs on Chinese goods based on its determination, under U.S. Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974,...
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The Chinese Innovation Conundrum
By: Iacopo MonterosaHuawei’s prominent role in 5G infrastructure could suggest that China is now ready to be a driving force on digital innovation. In addition, the...
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Huawei, Which Way? Perceptions and US-China Relations
By: Stephen RangerFollowing the global financial crisis in 2008, the G-2 framework of a global strategic partnership was seen among observers as the way forward for...
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China’s Growing Soft Power: Should Europe Protect its Cultural Industries?
By: Stephen RangerOne of the notable aspects of China’s foreign policy in recent years has been the increasing focus on developing soft power. Beijing has arguably...
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Strategic Challenge or Economic Benefit? Interpreting China’s FDI Flows
By: Stephen RangerForeign Direct Investment (FDI) and national security are often adversarial to one another. This is particularly the case with outward FDI from China...
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Can Europe Shape the Peaceful Rise of China? Working through the AIIB
By: Stephen RangerThe old adage was that the future of Asia would be Europe’s past, yet Europe’s role in the region’s future has often been given little...
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China – Regionalism and Multilateralism
By: Fredrik ErixonThe history of international economic cooperation teaches us one important lesson: every form of cooperation will die – essentially if not...