global trade | Watching America

Indonesia: ASEAN Will Struggle To Escape US-China Squeeze

Jinghong Chen - November 17, 2025. Published in The Jakarta Post

Yet, over the long term, tilting towards the US doesn't seem to be the natural choice, especially when America is looking to re-shore manufacturing and disengage from China-centric supply chains.

Taiwan: Taiwan Must Be Realistic in the Face of Extended U.S. China Competition

Jennifer Sampson - November 16, 2025. Published in UDN

Faced with shifts in power between the U.S. and China and in Southeast Asia, how should Taiwan respond?

Nepal: Xi–Trump Meeting and the Global Order

Deepti Bista - November 10, 2025. Published in The Kathmandu Post

Colombia: The Global Game: China Advances, but the United States Still Sets the Pace

Patricia Simoni - October 29, 2025. Published in El Colombiano

The paradox is that Washington is containing China by using the same tools that China perfected: tariffs, green subsidies and export restrictions.

Pakistan: The Beginning of the 2nd Cold War

Deepti Bista - October 21, 2025. Published in The Express Tribune

Brazil: China Freezes Investments in the United States and Abandons Interdependence*

Jane Dorwart - August 10, 2025. Published in Folha de São Paulo

It is the end of an era. Foreign investment ... has become something we must treat as a ... threat.

Germany: Goodbye Rules-Based Trade Policy

Peter Carioca - August 8, 2025. Published in Taz

Ursula von der Leyen ... has promised Trump a ransom to stop ... the threatened tariffs on European companies. It is unclear ... when the next round of blackmail will follow.

Taiwan: A Brief Look at Trump’s Global Profit Grab

Jennifer Sampson - April 11, 2025. Published in Taiwan Times

The tariff rate is unfair, unreasonable and full of holes.

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