Australia and Indonesia today signed a Comprehensive Strategic Partnership (CSP) that defines the relationship of these two Southeast Asian nations going forward.

As an aside on the U.S. Treasury Department’s active role in sanctions policy, the official said, “Secretary Mnuchin didn’t know he had so much authority and just loves the hammer.”
Treasury’s other major national security responsibility,...

Now is the time for the United States to pivot and work with Mexico to get Canada to join the agreement in principle and make the North American economy a win for all three countries.

The U.S.-Mexico announcement comes over a year after the renegotiation began and signals progress in the administration’s first substantive trade negotiation. What is the status of the NAFTA negotiations after this development and what’s worth watching?

For decades, mobility was one of the features of the U.S. economy as young workers, with families or without, went off to seek their fortunes elsewhere, in some cases voluntarily, in others driven to it by poverty, discrimination, or drought.

The coming weeks and months may mark a potential decision point in the bilateral trade war. 

It is time for the United States to recognize that the Indian Ocean is the next front line of world geopolitics and the emerging arena for a new “great game.”

Just when the crisis in Venezuela could not get any worse, Nicolas Maduro carried out one of the greatest currency devaluations in history. 

Talks with the European Union are beginning, but it is hard to see any short-term agreement. 

Highlights a report written by Freeman Chair Christopher K. Johnson on U.S.-China trade relations and the importance for the U.S. to operationalize red lines in the current trade dispute.

On August 15, Brunson’s appeal for release from house arrest was rejected, thus ensuring the continuation of the dispute between Turkey and its most important ally. 

Let’s hope the administration understands the limits of its high-risk tactics and is closely monitoring the potential for spillovers. Vulnerable economies may not be the only ones disciplined by financial markets.