Free Market Global

Navarro called China's attempts to dominate technology and intellectual property fields an “anathema to a free market global trading system.” The tariffs target continued Chinese violations of intellectual property and technology transfer agreements that have put U.S. companies and individuals at a ...

Can China balance its political system with its participation in a free-market global economy? The news media is rife with articles about China's crackdown on rules for foreign companies investing in China, and even a strict application of laws on its own people. While most multinational companies are ...

John McDonnell, the shadow chancellor with Marxist tendencies, is to rub shoulders with billionaires at the annual meeting of an institution seen as the cheerleader for free-market global capitalism. Mr McDonnell, who lists fomenting the overthrow of capitalism as his hobby in Who's Who, has accepted an ...

French President Emmanuel Macron is trying to advance a new kind of "offensive multilateralism." But unless the European Union as a whole embraces the cause, Europe risks becoming a casualty of China's efforts to bend the multilateral system to its own will or, worse, Trump's efforts to dismantle it ...

Others on the spectrum are less certain, pondering whether strategic patience and positive diplomatic and business engagement is the answer, giving time for China to evolve into what many hope will ultimately be a comfortable fit with the free market global system. The fact that China has already ...

The petroleum market is not a free market. Global prices are under the direct influence of a foreign cartel, and oil companies still control the distribution and sales of motor fuel. In this environment, the RFS ensures that consumers benefit from real competition, and that's where homegrown fuels shine.

Leaving the Paris agreement is not without consequence. Our diplomatic and trade partners may seek some measure of recompense for r street institute undermining the value of the first legally binding international greenhouse gas agreement. But the true goal is to solve the climate challenge. We should ...