Protectionism

WEST JAVA, INDONESIA - APRIL 15, 2020: A number of workers have completed making masks in one of the ... factories in Bogor City. This factory produces 250 thousand pieces of masks every day for the needs of Coronavirus disease (Covid-19). - PHOTOGRAPH BY Agus Nugraha / Opn Images/ Barcroft…

16 April 2020Author: Adam P MacDonald, Dalhousie UniversityThe lack of a coordinated global response to the COVID-19 pandemic is partly because many of the most capable states have been hit hardest and so focussed internally. But the entrenchment of great power competition as a major feature of global politics is…

Peter Navarro had an uneven portfolio in Donald Trump’s White House—until Coronavirus. White House National Trade Council Director Peter Navarro is interviewed by Fox Business Network outside the White House October 08, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)WASHINGTON– “Peter Navarro goes to the White House to be…

Somya Mathur, Badri Narayanan Gopalakrishnan and Upmanyu Bhardwaj A pathogen has the power to reboot the massive economies from an era of globalisation to that of regionalism, protectionism, scepticism and localisation. The COVID-19 outbreak has also given a peek into the vulnerabilities of global economic order.As nearly half of the…

12 April 2020Authors: Jeffrey J Schott, Gary Clyde Hufbauer and Euijin Jung, PIIEThe G20 record on trade is spotty and ineffectual — commitments to resist protectionism and strengthen world trading rules are regularly issued but almost never implemented. Since 2017, even the facade of cooperation has faded as US officials…

Quizzical reactions met Peter Navarro’s statement at a White House press briefing last week, related to the U.S. government’s response to the coronavirus pandemic. “The first order President Trump signed was vigorous, swift,” Navarro said. “It was the GM order which directed GM to make ventilators in Kokomo, Indiana in…

You’d think that if Congress made it a point to bail out an industry with tens of billions of taxpayer dollars, it wouldn’t sabotage it at the same time. Yet this is exactly what is happening to airlines as a result of Washington’s politics-first fixation with preserving low-traffic airports. The…

Here’s a letter to the Washington Post: Editor: Henry Olsen pleads for President Trump to “protect” Americans from low oil prices (“It’s time to put ‘America First,’ President Trump. Protect us from the oil glut.” April 7). Alas, in arguing for making petroleum artificially scarce in the U.S. Mr. Olsen…

The Pulse | Diplomacy | South Asia Does India have a post-pandemic template for global leadership in the 21st century? Credit: sanyambahga via FlickrLast month, Thomas Friedman wrote in his New York Times column that world history should henceforth be divided into “B.C. and A.C.” – “Before Corona” and “After Corona.” It’s far too…

In an article in The Atlantic entitled “Consider the Possibility That Trump Is Right About China,” a former Trump administration national security official makes a wide range of arguments that probably deserve a rebuttal, but for now I’m going to focus on the following one: Many of President Trump’s critics in the foreign‐​policy…