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182. Is China’s industrial policy working?
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The “Made in China 2025” subsidies both provoked a trade war and inspired similar moves by the US and other economies. But have they worked?
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181. US-China trade war fallout: This is what decoupling looks like
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How do we reconcile “record-level” US-China imports and exports when tariffs remain on more than half of trade between the two economies?
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180. The WTO is in trouble. Econ 101 to the rescue?
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How understanding the WTO’s past can help foster its revival – including for policy challenges like climate and China’s non-market economy.
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179. Why Taiwan restricts high-tech investment into China
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For decades, Taiwan has limited how and how much its tech firms like TSMC could invest in mainland China. Are there lessons for the United States?
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178. Why sanctions to stop Russian gas pipelines backfired
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US sanctions on European allies repeatedly failed to stop Russian gas pipelines, harmed transatlantic ties, and undermined US policy.
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177. How the Rana Plaza factory collapse changed global supply chains
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New research examines how NGOs, consumers, and major retailers responded to the outrage following the 2013 tragedy in Bangladesh.
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176. The Cold War scandal over export controls
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The leakage of submarine technology to the Soviet Union in the 1980s has lessons for the limits to and coordination of allies’ export controls today.
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175. The dreaded WTO ruling on Trump’s national security tariffs
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The WTO ruled against Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, dragging the organization into thorny national security issues.
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174. The incredible rise of Chinese fintech
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New super apps and other internet-enabled technologies have transformed China’s financial sector, with global implications, says Martin Chorzempa.
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173: Did Britain’s slave trade help drive its industrial revolution?
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New research reveals how Britain’s economy benefited from the brutal transatlantic slave trade and its slave holdings.