updated Sat. December 30, 2023
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Nikkei Asian Review
April 3, 2018
American trade policy could compound these troubles, and companies predict even worse conditions in three months. U.S. tariffs may create a glut of Chinese steel, for example, denting prices in Japan and elsewhere in Asia, according to a trade source. Similar concerns sent Chinese rebar futures slidingÃâà...
WTOP
April 3, 2018
And the $3 billion in U.S. products that Beijing targeted Monday amount to barely 2 percent of American goods exported to China. ... “It seems to be pretty measured and proportional,” agreed Wendy Cutler, a former U.S. trade official who is now vice president at the Asia Society Policy Institute. “They didn'tÃâà...
Asia Times
April 3, 2018
America's continued presence in the waters of Southeast Asia is predicated, in part, on Washington's insistence that they are needed, and wanted, ... Maritime policy analysts Mark Valencia writes in The Jakarta Post that the answer depends on which Asean members you ask, and what the US Navy is up toÃâà...
Council on Foreign Relations (blog)
April 3, 2018
Hunter Marston is a senior research assistant at the Brookings Institution, where he works in the Center for East Asia Policy Studies and for The India ... The United States under George W. Bush renewed attention to Central Asia given its strategic importance to the global war on terror, but declining U.S.Ãâà...
ABC News
April 1, 2018
U.S. Sen. Warren says chaos in the Trump administration is harming its ability to formulate coherent policy toward North Korea's nuclear program and ... "We told ourselves a happy-faced story that never fit with the facts, and now ... the United States cannot avoid facing a very different reality with China,"Ãâà...
The Boston Globe
March 25, 2018
Our engagement in Asia is essential to US security and economic interests, but today the region faces significant threats. On the Korean Peninsula, a nuclear-armed North Korea threatens the security of the United States, our allies, the region, and the world. I agree with our senior military officials that thereÃâà...
Deutsche Welle
March 13, 2018
These are not isolated cases but stories of hundreds, if not thousands, of Indians, feeling the heat of US President Donald Trump's protectionist policies stemming from "buy American, hire American" outlook. IT workforce in India, world's largest outsourcing hub for the software industry, chiefly relies on theÃâà...
American Journal of Transportation
March 13, 2018
Singapore was a notable outlier—exports actually do better when its currency firms up. For a region that's heavily dependent on exports, the relationship to currency performance explains why Asia's policy makers stepped up action last year as the U.S. dollar weakened. With global trade risks rising thisÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
March 13, 2018
The fact that even Chinese President Xi Jinping finds Kim Jong Un too distasteful to meet should tell us something. It fits North ... Now an American president has been delivered. ... He served as the senior National Security Council official on Asia policy during the George W. Bush administration. Follow himÃâà...
Channel NewsAsia
March 13, 2018
WASHINGTON: In his first year in office, President Donald Trump broke sharply with many longstanding traditions in US foreign policy. Surprisingly, the attention the administration is paying to Southeast Asia has been one area of relative continuity. Before the Obama administration, US governments failedÃâà...
East Asia Forum
March 11, 2018
In his first year in office, President Donald Trump broke sharply with many long-standing traditions in US foreign policy. Surprisingly, the attention the administration is paying to Southeast Asia has been one area of relative continuity. Before the Obama administration, US governments failed in key momentsÃâà...
Barron's
March 10, 2018
Subbaraman thinks continued saber-rattling will get policy makers to rethink international economic policies. They're more likely to take firmer control of their destiny by promoting domestic demand and cooperating in regional free trade agreements like the Trans-Pacific Partnership (even without the U.S.)Ãâà...
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
December 31, 1999
On the other hand, and more importantly, the Rebalance in many respects upheld long-standing U.S. policy toward China and Asia in ways FOIP ... China seeks to displace the United States in the Indo-Pacific region, expand the reaches of its state-driven economic model, and reorder the region in its favor.
New York Times
December 31, 1999
The United States has “gone from being a leader to actually being the No. 1 antagonist and No. 1 source of fear” on trade, said Jeffrey Wilson, the head of research at Perth U.S.-Asia Center at the University of Western Australia. “If you're a trade policy maker in Asia, your No. 1 fear is that Trump is going toÃâà...
New York Times
December 31, 1999
Trade is measured as percentage point difference between total export-import value (as percent of GDP) with China and with the U.S. Data from the World Bank, Ministry of Finance of Bhutan, ... Countries that purchase American weapons bind their militaries and their foreign policies to the United States.
The Asia Foundation
December 31, 1999
Some observers once feared that the U.S. might withdraw from the region. This does not appear to be the case. Many Asian leaders want the United States to maintain its robust, sustained, and balanced presence in Asia, but with policies that are clear, not contradictory. While the U.S. remains an importantÃâà...
Foreign Policy (blog)
December 31, 1999
More than a year after withdrawing from a big Asia-Pacific trade pact, the Trump administration keeps talking about rejoining it on its own terms. But the Asia-Pacific countries that were eager a year ago to hold the door open for the United States are now busy building their own trading order — withoutÃâà...
