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Critical Questions
The U.S.-Japan Trade Deal
September 25, 2019 | Matthew P. Goodman, Dylan Gerstel, Nicholas Szechenyi, Michael J. Green After a year of negotiations, the United States and Japan announced an initial trade agreement on September 25. CSIS experts explain what was agreed to, why it matters, and what comes next.

Report
U.S.–Southeast Asia Trade Relations in an Age of Disruption
June 27, 2019 This CSIS brief argues that the United States is no longer a predictable trade partner for Southeast Asian countries, with the effect of uncertainty stemming from U.S.-China trade tensions and trade architecture moving along without the United States.

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.

Commentary
In the U.S.-China Dinner Episode, Trump Wins by a Hair
December 3, 2018 | Scott Kennedy

The drama that is U.S.-China relations added a new episode in Buenos Aires this weekend. The outcome was in many ways anti-climactic, as the two sides reached the most limited of agreements, writes Scott Kennedy, deputy director of the CSIS Freeman Chair.

Newsletter
U.S.-India Insight: Mind the Gap
November 28, 2018 | Richard M. Rossow Reviewing the growing list of trade concerns between the U.S. and India, it feels like the relationship is spinning out of control. 

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
The End of Gaiatsu?
October 29, 2018

The announcement of new trade negotiations between the United States and Japan may seem like a compromise, but the narrow scope of the talks reveals that Japan isn’t giving up much, as CSIS Scholl Chair adjunct fellow Paul Nadeau writes...


Critical Questions
Treasury Forgoes Labels but Singles Out China for Criticism
October 18, 2018 | Stephanie Segal

Treasury’s decision not to label China as a currency manipulator in its latest semiannual currency report may reflect its aim to preserve the report’s credibility, as Stephanie Segal from CSIS Simon Chair writes in a new CQ piece.

Newsletter
A Path to De-Globalization?
September 28, 2018 | Stephanie Segal

On trade, the administration has at least started to differentiate between friends and foes, even if it’s not entirely clear what will be the concrete results of recently announced agreements. 

Report
China's Belt and Road Is Full Of Holes
September 4, 2018 | Jonathan E. Hillman

Five years since it was announced, China’s massive Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) has yet to materialize on the ground as promised. 

Critical Questions
China Trade War Escalation? Where to from Here?
August 24, 2018 | Stephanie Segal, Jack Caporal

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

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