Trade

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 since the time of Deng Xiaoping and Richard Nixon.

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.

Daniel Russel tells CNBC that United States and the international community should be focusing on the objectionable behavior of China, and not vilifying China with a broad brush.

ASPI President Kevin Rudd says the period of strategic engagement between the U.S. and China is yielding to a new period of strategic competition.

Wendy Cutler says it’s time to develop a co-existence pact between the two very different systems at play in the U.S. and China.

Kevin Rudd suggests we light a candle for coming trade talks with China since we’ve routinely failed to see the tipping points between failed diplomacy and limited conflict and then more general war.

Transparent citizens, police state, totalitarian rule: The catchphrases used to describe the Social Credit System (SCS) are oftentimes lurid. China has announced to introduce a rating system by 2020, which measures and expresses the social behaviour of citizens and companies. Is the system the Orwellian nightmare that Western media often depicts it as, or is the story more complicated? In Asia Society Switzerland’s summer series, we try to shed some light on what the SCS really is, and how it works.

Transparent citizens, police state, totalitarian rule: The catchphrases used to describe the Social Credit System (SCS) are oftentimes lurid. China has announced to introduce a rating system by 2020, which measures and expresses the social behaviour of citizens and companies. Is the system the Orwellian nightmare that Western media often depicts it as, or is the story more complicated? In Asia Society Switzerland’s summer series, we try to shed some light on what the SCS really is, and how it works.