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Commentary
Trade Policy Can Lead Covid-19 Economic Recovery
August 6, 2020 Covid-19 may be the most important humanitarian crisis of the twenty-first century. U.S. trade policy may prove to be one of the most powerful tools for heading off disaster.

Commentary
Taking the Higher Road: U.S. Global Infrastructure Strategy One Year Later
April 27, 2020 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde, Jonathan E. Hillman, Sundar R. Ramanujam One year ago, CSIS made key recommendations that would give United States a more leading role in global infrastructure development. This new commentary looks at how those recommendations are not only still relevant—but more urgent—in light of Covid-19.

Commentary
America’s Infrastructure Moment
April 21, 2020 | Peter Raymond A $2 trillion infrastructure program is at the center of stimulus deliberations and for good reason. Infrastructure is the backbone of any economy, and it can put thousands of people to work.

Report
The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge
April 23, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde, Jonathan E. Hillman, Erol Yayboke A global infrastructure buildout is transforming the economies around the world. This report from the CSIS Global Infrastructure Task Force discusses how these trends are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop and too consequential to ignore.

Report
CSIS Brief: The Higher Road: Forging a U.S. Strategy for the Global Infrastructure Challenge
April 23, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Daniel F. Runde This accompanying brief to the CSIS report from the CSIS Global Infrastructure Task Force summarizes how the current trends in global infrastructure buildout are too powerful and potentially beneficial for the United States to stop and too consequential to ignore.

Report
Delivering Prosperity in the Indo-Pacific: An Agenda for Australia and the United States
April 18, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Gordon de Brouwer CSIS’ Matthew Goodman, together with colleagues at Australian National University, co-authored a brief on opportunities for U.S.-Australia coordination in the Indo-Pacific across five sectors.

Critical Questions
Vice President Pence Goes to Asia
November 9, 2018 | Amy Searight, Matthew P. Goodman, William Alan Reinsch There are some key reasons why we think the president’s absence matters. As Woody Allen said, “80 percent of success is showing up,” and nowhere is that more true than Southeast Asia, as CSIS experts Amy Searight, Matthew Goodman, William Reinsch write in their CQ piece.

Commentary
How Big Is China’s Belt and Road?
April 3, 2018 | Jonathan E. Hillman The best available data suggest that China’s $1 trillion promise has not been met, and at current trends, will not be met for several years.

Report
China’s Maritime Silk Road: Strategic and Economic Implications for the Indo-Pacific Region
April 2, 2018 | Michael J. Green

CSIS has commissioned seven experts to unpack the economic and geostrategic implications of China’s infrastructure development across the Indo-Pacific region under the Maritime Silk Road.

Report
China’s Maritime Silk Road Initiative: Economic Drivers and Challenges
April 2, 2018 | Matthew P. Funaiole , Jonathan E. Hillman

This article examines several economic criteria that should be used when analyzing port projects associated with the Maritime Silk Road Initiative.

Report
The Rise of China-Europe Railways
March 6, 2018 | Jonathan E. Hillman

The emergence of China-Europe railways does not signal the return of a world in which overland trade dominates. The railways have found speed, but their scale remains limited.

Report
China’s Belt and Road Initiative: Five Years Later
January 25, 2018 | Jonathan E. Hillman

A statement by Jonathan Hillman, director of the Reconnecting Asia Project, before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission.

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