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| Ricardo Hausmann
March 4, 2021, Opinion: "Former US President Donald Trump's policy of maximum pressure on the Venezuelan dictatorship failed to dislodge the regime or alleviate the humanitarian crisis. If Joe Biden is to succeed, he will need a policy that makes life as burdensome as possible for the elite and as bearable and democratic as possible for ordinary Venezuelans." HKS Author - Ricardo Hausmann
| Joseph Nye
February 4, 2021, Opinion: "The Japan-US alliance remains popular in both countries, which need each other more than ever. Together, they can balance China’s power and cooperate with China in areas like climate change, biodiversity, and pandemics, as well as on working toward a rules-based international economic order."
| 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…
| Jesse Fried
November 30, 2020, Paper: "Alibaba, the e-commerce giant that completed a record-breaking IPO in the United States in 2014 and in mid-2020 was valued at over $500 billion, is one of hundreds of China-based U.S.-listed firms whose controlling insiders are largely “law-proof”: the corporate and securities laws governing these firms are effectively unenforceable because the firms’ insiders, records, and assets are in China. Legal remedies thus…
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. |…
| Stephen Walt
November 12, 2020, Video: "World Politics, U.S. Webinar and COVID-19 Pandemic involving internationally renowned professor Stephen Walt (Harvard University) - Translated (Video is in English)"
| 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." -…