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Way Out of The West’s Critical Minerals Dilemma

Marina Yue Zhang | East Asia Forum | 02/16/2026

Since 2022, the United States and the EU have shifted rapidly towards a more interventionist industrial policy aimed at building ‘trusted’ critical mineral supply chains free from Chinese inputs.  The…

Escalate to Negotiate: How Europe Should Respond to Chinese Export Restrictions

Tobias Gehrke & Janka Oertel | European Council on Foreign Relations | 10/21/2025

Can Middle Powers Anchor the Future of Global Trade?

Mary Ng | The Hinrich Foundation | 09/02/2025

The fractures in today’s global trading system have been years ...

US Negotiators Face Tough Task to Secure Trade Deal with China

Wendy Cutler | South China Morning Post | 08/18/2025

A more assertive Chinese negotiating team, a l...

Powers of Attraction

Matt Turpin | China Articles | 07/13/2025

Will American Industrial Policy overcome the PRC’s weaponization of Rare Earth Magnet Production? F...

Trump’s Trade Wars Expose Chink in Global Economic Order

Sujan Chinoy | Firstpost | 07/09/2025

At the end of last week, US President Donald Trump shook the glob...

A New Trade Paradigm: How Shifts in Trade Corridors Could Affect Business

Jeongmin Seong, Olivia White, Shivanshu Gupta, Asutosh Padhi, Brajesh Chhibber, Jeffrey Condon & Tiago Devesa | McKinsey | 06/18/2025

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