Trade

The ASPI vice president and veteran trade negotiator explains why a new issue paper she co-authored on U.S.-Korea trade is so timely.

Issue paper highlighting areas for closer economic cooperation between the U.S. and South Korea.

Wendy Cutler and Kevin Doyle question if it is time to update China's status as a developing country in the WTO.

By escalating tensions over national security, the United States may be hurting its own position in trade talks.

Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson speaks on the U.S. and China at a Crossroads in an address at Asia Society headquarters.

China’s Economic Reforms Cannot, Should Not Stop, ASPI President Kevin Rudd writes in Caixin.

Understanding Xi Jinping's worldview—that China expects change—is a part of understanding how the rest of the region, and how the rest of the West, including the U.S., deals with China in the future, ASPI President Kevin Rudd tells Bloomberg.

Washington and Beijing "kind of owe" their companies and their workers a return to the negotiating table, says ASPI VP Wendy Cutler.

Kevin Rudd says Trump and Xi Jinping are leading their countries away from the 40-year-old policies that both countries have followed.

Kevin Rudd talks to the Sinica Podcast about how Xi Jinping constructs his worldview and elaborates on the extent to which the Chinese government’s worldview has changed, the current direction of that worldview, and how much of that can be traced to Xi.

ASPI VP Danny Russel on the Trans-Pacific Partnership; Internet freedom; China’s “illiberal turn”; espionage and intellectual property theft; the AIIB; and the current state of the U.S.-China relationship.

Wendy Cutler writes that Tokyo will worry about U.S. right to veto pacts with nonmarket economies, such as China

Wendy Cutler, ASPI VP and Managing Director, and former U.S. trade negotiator, says there's an opportunity for Trump and Xi to meet on G20 sidelines to get things moving on a more constructive path.

ASPI President Kevin Rudd says we are at the the very beginning of the deep reappraisal of Chinese long-term strategy towards the United States.

Anubhav Gupta writes that Pakistan has confirmed the bugs in the architecture of China’s ‘Belt and Road’.

Danny Russel says that great a U.S.-Japan alliance takes more than great personal relationships.