Huawei to Hell: PRC Threatens Trade Spat w/ EU
There's so much controversy over Chinese-made and -designed telecommunications gear: While the American solution to denying market access to budding Chinese telecoms giants / national champions H…
Showing posts with the label Economic Diplomacy
TPP is Ludicrous: US Auto, Canadian Agri Edition
Here are two more examples of the rather enormous roadblocks to the US government attempting to expand an APEC PTA to counterbalance growing Chinese trade dominance in the region. In their own ways, …
Revisiting WWII, or When Adidas Made Bazookas
This coming week I am going to discuss European economic integration in class. As most of you can recite from memory, the European Union got its start as the European Coal and Steel Community ( ECSC …
Garrett: US 'All In' On Right Side of History vs China
The framing is not one which I would use, but it's an increasingly familiar trope nonetheless: Is the United States' model of capitalist liberal democracy becoming obsolete vis-a-vis the &quo…
Multilateralism Ain't Dead: A Climate Deal in Durban
Well here's a pleasant surprise: while the fine print remains to be hammered out and non-ratification by the countries concerned remains a distinct possibility, the broad outlines of a multilater…
US & Roping Japan Into Trans-Pacific Partnership
There's a new article in Foreign Affairs by Bernard K. Gordon on further broadening the mooted expansion of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) to include Japan. Right now, the existing hole-he…
WTO Heresy: D-G Pascal Lamy Warms to PTAs
Let's get the obvious out of the way: the WTO Doha Development Agenda still looks as unsalvageable as it did at the start of this year. Being the guy who inherited the stillborn negotiations, fai…
Fondly Recalling Thatcher's Handbag of IPE Doom
It is one of the most notable incidences in European integration history: Although the exact wording is still being debated to this day, former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher famously went …
Georgia, Still Russia's Roadblock to Joining WTO
I just wanted to add this update to my ever-growing collection of posts pertaining to Russia joining the WTO [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8 , 9 , 10 ]. The gist of it is that Georgia remains …
Rumour Mill: Lord Mandelson, Next WTO Chief?
I would advise you to take this latest report with a grain of salt. For, in the last few hours, Gordon Brown's statements championing a greater role for less-developed countries at the IMF which …
The Abyss: Pascal Lamy Broaches Doha Failure
Poor, poor WTO Director-General Pascal Lamy. Forever in search of the completion of the Doha Development Agenda, he must trot out the old reasons that have failed to convince member nations again and…
Can Manny Pacquiao Knock Out Chinese Textiles?
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Why China Isn't Going to Bail Out Europe's PIGS
And now for a feature with a little help from one of my cyber-friends. Iana Dreyer should be familiar to longtime IPE Zone reader via her previous blog Global Conditions . Having now joined the Europ…
From Davos to Doha: WTO Round Done in 2011?
Running over the same old ground What have we found? The same old fears Wish you were here And now for some postcards from Davos. Sometime ago, I had a self-parodying feature of T-shirts being sold …
Khodorkovsky, Rule of Law & Russia Joining WTO
This is yet another entry in the long-running saga of Russian WTO accession [ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 ]. I think you know how this story goes: the seemingly arbitrary (re-)incarceration of Vladimir…
Will Japan Join the Trans-Pacific Partnership PTA?
If there's a developed country suffering from typical developed country maladies, it's Japan. Massive public debt (largely counterbalanced by huge FX reserves some would argue); a shrinking a…
Korea-US FTA Negotiated; US Congress Up Next
Whoa, the Obama administration has actually negotiated a trade deal. As trade junkies know, one of the leftover bilaterals from the Bush administration was KORUSFTA. One stumbling block was US autom…