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June 7, 2007

China
The reverse processing trade …

A standard argument is that China’s export success is overstated.   Sure, a lot of goods, especially electronics, are assembled in China.  But those goods are composed of imported parts.     Chinese …

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May 30, 2017

China
A Few Words on China’s “New” Exchange Rate Regime

The return of the "fix" doesn't answer the more fundamental question of how China intends to manage its currency.

A Few Words on China’s “New” Exchange Rate Regime

September 27, 2011

TWE Mailbag: Suggested CTBT Readings

A mailbox in downtown Paris. (Charles Platiau/courtesy Reuters) Last Saturday I noted that it had been exactly fifteen years since President Bill Clinton signed the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Tr…

A Mailbox is seen downtown Paris, January 13, 2008. REUTERS/Charles Platiau

August 7, 2015

United States
Realpolitik and Human Trafficking

The fight against trafficking in persons has been a human rights policy that works. Laws adopted largely because of pressure from religious groups, especially Evangelicals, were resisted by the usual…

December 20, 2018

International Economic Policy
China's November Trade and the U.S. Trade Data from October

Both China and the U.S. provided their respective snapshots on the state of global trade earlier this month… The U.S. October trade data showed that the U.S. imports continue to grow at a robust c…

China's November Trade and the U.S. Trade Data from October