Protectionism

WASHINGTON (Project Syndicate) Not content with its trade war against China, President Donald Trumps administration has also opened bilateral trade negotiations with Japan. Yet whatever Trump hopes to achieve with Japan, it will be far less than what he threw…

Google has restricted the Chinese telecoms equipment giant Huawei from receiving some updates to the Android operating system, meaning that all its future devices will lose access to Google services including Gmail, YouTube and Google Play Store.The move foll…

Thirty-two years later, the presidents song remains the same except, of course, that Japan has been replaced by China as the principal target of Trumps protectionist policy. Tariffs will bring in FAR MORE wealth to our Country than even a phenomenal deal of t…

John Stossel sent my letter of earlier today on to Victor Davis Hanson. Mr. Hanson was not impressed with my letter.I do not have permission to share Mr. Hanson’s response, but I here share my (slightly edited) reply to his response – a reply that John Stosse…

By Steve Scherer OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will move quickly to ratify the new North American trade pact, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday, a day after the United States agreed to lift tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. U.S. Presiden…

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canada will move quickly to ratify the new North American trade pact, Foreign Minister Chrystia Freeland said on Saturday, a day after the United States agreed to lift tariffs on Canadian steel and aluminum. U.S. President Donald Trump ha…

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan's top currency diplomat Masatsugu Asakawa said Group of 20 finance leaders likely will not include language in their communique saying that members will fight protectionism, the Sankei newspaper reported on Friday. Japan, as chair of …

PARIS French President Emmanuel Macron poured cold water on the idea of implementing protectionist measures on tech companies like Huawei. Asked by CNBC's Karen Tso Thursday about U.S. pressure on the Chinese telecommunications giant, he said: "We have some …

It is appalling that the clash of the worlds economic titans, the U.S. and China, vis-à-vis their sordid tariff war, has now escalated (Page 1, China hits back, imposes tariff hike on U.S. goods worth $60 bn, May 14). Undoubtedly, the trade war has been initi…

Addressing the shrinking of the middle class is crucial to fight the rise of nationalism, protectionism and populism in the next European elections, Margherita Movarelli argues. Nowadays we are all very much exposed to populist messages. There is nothing new…