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Webinar: Breaking down Trump’s trade attacks & global solidarity efforts
12-Nov-2025 OWINFS & ETJC
Join us in calling on governments to stop appeasing Trump. Learn how your work fits into this movement and how you can join us in pushing for resistance and creating a better world.
Expanding the legal toolkit: the EU’s new tools against sanctioned Russian investors
5-Nov-2025 Freshfields
These new provisions expand the legal tools available to EU Member States to resist and deter investor-State dispute settlement (ISDS) proceedings brought by Russian investors in connection to measures imposed within the EU’s sanctions regime against Russia.
Era of free trade and investment is over, Canada’s PM tells Apec summit
3-Nov-2025 The Guardian
Mark Carney warns Asia-Pacific leaders global economy undergoing profound change, as China’s president mounts defence of free trade.
Trump’s secret trade deals with Malaysia and Cambodia revealed: Imperialist bullying on behalf of Big Tech, other corporate interests
30-Oct-2025 Public Citizen
An early review of the texts reveals new handouts to Big Tech and other corporate interests, with little to nothing that will help working people in the US.
US ties trade deal with India to abandoning Russian oil
12-Sep-2025 RBC-Ukraine
The US may strike a trade deal with India as soon as it stops buying oil from Russia, states US Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick.
What the India-Israel investment treaty reveals about IMEC, geopolitics amid Gaza conflict
11-Sep-2025 Asianet News
The agreement, aimed at offering stronger protections for investors, comes at a moment of shifting economic and geopolitical dynamics in the region.
NZ is looking for a deal over Trump’s new tariffs – that could come with a high political price
1-Sep-2025 The Conversation
When the Trump administration arbitrarily imposed 15% tariffs on New Zealand exports on August 1, up from a previously announced 10%, no one should have been surprised.
Von der Leyen played hardball with China. Then she won a trade deal with Trump.
30-Jul-2025 Politico
Washington and Brussels have vowed to join forces against China’s excess production of subsidized steel.
Trump to resume Thailand, Cambodia trade talks after truce
29-Jul-2025 The Straits Times
President Donald Trump said the US will resume trade negotiations with Thailand and Cambodia after they agreed to halt clashes along their disputed border, taking credit for pushing them to peace after threatening punishing tariffs.
Investment agreements with India and the UAE could redraw Israel’s geoeconomic map
28-Jul-2025 Ynet
New generation of agreements designed not only to encourage capital flow, but also to signal Israel’s readiness to anchor itself within emerging spheres of global influence, most notably in the Global South
Trump threatens extra tariffs on BRICS-aligned countries
21-Jul-2025 The New York TImes
President Trump said nations that support the group’s “Anti-American policies” would face an additional 10 percent tariff. He did not elaborate.
Trump’s Africa summit heats up rivalry for continent’s resources
18-Jul-2025 Bloomberg
US President Donald Trump’s meeting with African leaders shows a sense of urgency in competing for scarce resources with China, which recently lifted tariffs on imports from the continent.
US wants EU to ‘follow us 100%’ on China, says Brussels
15-Jul-2025 Euractiv
The US is urging the EU to fully adopt Washington’s more hawkish policy on China, a senior EU official said, amid growing speculation that the bloc could impose tougher measures on Beijing in order to clinch a trade deal with the US.
Trump seeks to extract “payment” for reciprocal tariffs by 1 August
11-Jul-2025 SUNS
The Trump administration’s trade war appears to be replete with geopolitical and geoeconomic undertones in which countries with strong links with China in Asia are being severely punished.
Global trade at gunpoint
19-Jun-2025 In These Times
Trump is setting up a protection racket to expand corporate power around the world.
US-China trade truce leaves military-use rare earth issue unresolved, sources say
16-Jun-2025 Reuters
The renewed US-China trade truce struck in London left a key area of export restrictions tied to national security untouched, an unresolved conflict that threatens a more comprehensive deal.
Trump’s threat to free trade brings China, Japan, South Korea closer
25-Mar-2025 Nikkei Asia
Chinese Foreign Minister pressed for an early restart of free trade talks between Japan, China and South Korea. He also reiterated China’s interest in joining the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement.
Does Trump’s return spell the end of free trade?
14-Mar-2025 Attac France & bilaterals.org
Donald Trump’s return to power and his fresh round of tariffs have sent further shockwaves through the neoliberal order that has shaped global trade since the 1990s. So does this mark the death of free trade?
Trump and trade policy. Elements for analysis.
12-Mar-2025 América Latina Mejor sin TLC
The Platform, together with Latindadd, held a virtual meeting aimed at providing elements for analysing the new global economic situation brought about by the return to power of US President Donald Trump.
My Say: China’s CPTPP accession: Hidden hands blocking the Red Dragon?
3-Feb-2025 The Edge Malaysia
China’s bid to join the CPTPP faces obstacles, primarily due to geopolitical considerations rather than purely economic ones. While China’s economic clout makes its inclusion seem logical, some CPTPP members, influenced by the US, appear to be blocking China’s entry to limit its influence in the Asia-Pacific region.