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David Dodwell
David Dodwell is CEO of the trade policy and international relations consultancy Strategic Access, focused on developments and challenges facing the Asia-Pacific over the past four decades.
David Dodwell is CEO of the trade policy and international relations consultancy Strategic Access, focused on developments and challenges facing the Asia-Pacific over the past four decades.
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Transparency, good audits, appeal channels and channels for whistle-blowers might provide some checks – but never a foolproof solution.
The city needs to find its voice to defend the global multilateral trading system and the rules that have fostered growth for eight decades.
Outside the US, new consumer markets have been gathering critical mass as their populations have grown and incomes have risen.
From the Soviet Union to Greece, statisticians have been punished for bad news while in colonial Hong Kong, a dearth of data exacted a price.
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Tariffs will take their toll, but the damage done by the White House to the World Trade Organization’s core principles could be irreparable.
As the US president’s tariff obsession wreaks havoc, indifference to the workings of global trade will only lead to more catastrophic consequences.
World minus US likely to intensify cooperation and reform across the UN and other multilateral organisations, rather than leave like the US.
Anti-dumping duty recognises China’s control of the carbon mineral and its growing importance in the batteries powering the future.
The dollar peg still does yeoman’s work for the city, while promoting the yuan in trade finance and settlement would enhance what it has built.
Having survived Obama’s opposition, the development bank established by China will soon have a new president in a tricky Trumpian environment.
Amid voter defiance and record debt, anyone who believes the governments will find an extra US$2.7 trillion by 2035 is living in dreamland.
Trump’s supporters seem certain the damage his policies cause will be short-lived, but they may change their minds as the trade wars drag on.
For every traveller open to learning from our differences, there is another impregnably confident in the superiority of his or her culture.
Trump’s Gulf tour and his proposed budget highlight a disproportionate US reliance on its military-industrial complex.
The choice of the Swiss city of Geneva for US-China negotiations was telling, and the breakthroughs achieved are only the start of a long process.
The US president has proposed a 100 per cent tariff on films made abroad, but this is hardly what the entertainment industry needs.
Companies and countries alike are seeing hedging costs hit the roof amid a loss of trust and certainty in the US, the dollar and Treasuries.
The centre of faith is moving away from the West, a shift that could add impetus to the late pope’s reforms.
The US president’s chaotic approach is not restricted to trade and could throw the rules-based international order into crisis.
Many Chinese cities have country-sized economies. Places some Westerners haven’t heard of would have UN seats if they were countries.
The US president cannot be allowed to replace world’s hard-won multilateral compromise and cooperation with bullying bilateralism.
Threatened with annexation, Canadians reluctant to be absorbed nevertheless find it hard to say what distinguishes them from Americans.
The countdown to April 2 begins. Amid the gargantuan complexity of tariff calculations, US clarifications only serve to obfuscate.
This unprecedented empowerment of the US ‘political donor class’ risks jeopardising the proper functioning of democracy.
Trump’s dogmatic commitment to his tariff-driven policy will force others to adapt – by reducing their reliance on, and engagement with, the US.
The city should take advantage of China’s burgeoning edge in alternative solar cell technologies to become a hub for renewables.
Chinese parcels make up two-thirds of de minimis imports exempt from customs taxes. But cost of processing would outweigh the tax collected.
Greatest harm is in the emboldening of the US fossil fuel industry and pressure on US finance giants to turn away from funding climate goals.
From trade to immigration, Trump’s agenda risks a backlash. The question is whether he sees the problem and will change tack.
