By Brahma Chellaney, The Strategist (ASPI): “China portrayed the 1997 restoration of its sovereignty over Hong Kong, following more than a century of British administration, as righting a historic injustice. Yet, as Hambantota shows, China is now establishing its own Hong Kong–style neocolonial arrangements. Apparently Xi’s promise of the ‘great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation’ is inextricable from the erosion of smaller states’ sovereignty.”
Theodore H. Moran | American Enterprise Institute
Brahma Chellaney warns small developing countries that easy loans from the Asian giant could cost them their sovereignty.
by Martin Feldstein via Project Syndicate
The US government should focus on combating foreign governments’ trade policies – such as technology theft, non-tariff barriers to US exports, and forced technology transfers – that hurt American firms without any offsetting benefits to American consumers.
Keyu Jin of the London School of Economics, writing just a month after Trump's "America First" inauguration address, explained why the United States – and Trump supporters in particular – would lose much more than China would in a trade war.
Jeffrey Frankel thinks that politicians are wrong to blame globalization for the widening gap between rich and poor.