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| Jason Furman
December 16, 2020, Opinion: "The US Treasury today officially labelled Vietnam as a currency manipulator, a process that will trigger “enhanced bilateral engagement with Vietnam” and could eventually be used to justify countervailing duties against Vietnam. The Vietnamese designation may well have been consistent with the criteria set out in the 2015 law updating the US approach to currency manipulation, but this designation is a substantive…
| Anthony Saich
September 2, 2020, Video: "The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission (USCC), a bipartisan body created by the American Congress has submitted its 2020 annual report and policy recommendations. In Chapter 3, the report says: "Some evidence suggested the Chinese government had planned the (Galwan) incident, potentially including the possibility for fatalities." Under key findings in the same chapter, the report notes: "Shortly after…
November 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interviewed Joseph S. Nye, Jr., University Distinguished Service Professor, Emeritus and former Dean of Harvard Kennedy School, on the long-term geopolitical impact of COVID-19, morality and the U.S. Presidency, and the role of soft power in U.S. foreign policy. |…
| Nicholas Burns
September 8, 2020, Video: "Ambassador Burns discusses the evolving U.S. relationship with Europe ahead of the November U.S. Presidential Election and the challenges presented by the COVID-19 and economic crises. He draws on his distinguished career in the U.S. Foreign Service to examine how the United States can rebuild its relationship with NATO and the European Union in the face of unprecedented global challenges such as the coronavirus,…
| Jeffry Frieden
2020, Paper: "For much of the post-World War Two period, the world seemed on a1 path of ever-greater collaboration among the principal economic centers. In the past2 decade,economic and political trends have called this upward tendency into question.3 Within both advanced industrial and developing nations, there has been an upsurge in4 “populist”sentimentwith an economically nationalistic tenor and an explicit hostility5 to “globalist”…
| Robert Lawrence
June 12, 2020, Video, "Robert Lawrence, Harvard chair of trade policy and former economic advisor to U.S. President Bill Clinton, joins BNN Bloomberg to discuss what deglobalization might look like in the years to come and why regional trading markets will likely be stronger post-COVID." -…
| Kenneth Rogoff
June 3, 2020, Opinion, "Even if the United States turns a blind eye to deglobalization’s effects on the rest of the world, it should remember that the current abundant demand for dollar assets depends heavily on the vast trade and financial system that some American politicians aim to shrink. If deglobalization goes too far, no country will be spared."…