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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.
Canada says North American free trade partners should be fully aligned on China
2-Dec-2024 Reuters
Canada thinks the members of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact have a chance to produce a fully aligned policy on China, Finance Minister Chrystia Freeland said.
FTA with US ‘unlikely’ under Trump but nickel deal may be doable
19-Nov-2024 The Jakarta Post
While a free trade agreement (FTA) with the US could open up the market for Indonesian nickel, the incoming administration’s protectionist stance makes this less likely. Indonesia’s reliance on Chinese investment in its nickel industry could also complicate matters due to ongoing US-China trade tensions.
Malaysia in talks for new free trade deals to blunt impact of geopolitical conflicts — Zafrul
14-Oct-2024 The Edge Malaysia
Malaysia is currently negotiating several new free trade agreements that would help to diversify its trade and investments, and mitigate the impact of conflicts in the Middle East and the Russia-Ukraine war.
There are no free lunches in trade deals
13-Sep-2024 Foreign Policy
How to cut through the PR and understand an agreement.
NFUniversity: Colonial roots of modern free trade agreements
9-Sep-2024 NFU
This talk explored the colonial origins of modern international trade. Geopolitics, power relations, and corporate interests have shaped trade rules for over 500 years before it reached its current form.
Switzerland is getting squeezed between China and the US
20-Aug-2024 BNN Bloomberg
Back when it was signed, many saw the Swiss-China FTA as the precursor for a trade deal between China and the EU, but then things changed and now Switzerland is going its own way.
Trade and climate internationalism
2-Apr-2024 The Ecologist
Trade deals are used to extract valuable resources from the Global South - but a recent victory shows we can make a difference.
US senators oppose Indonesia FTA that paves way for nickel subsidies
3-Nov-2023 Nikkei Asia
US lawmakers have expressed concern about signing a limited free trade agreement with Indonesia, as the country’s mining and refining industry is dominated by companies from China.
‘Silent coup’: how capitalism defeated decolonization
25-Sep-2023 The Real News Network
The crumbling of European empires after WWII didn’t usher in a new era of democracy—instead, we now live in a regime of international corporate rule.
The global economy’s real enemy is geopolitics, not protectionism
8-Sep-2023 Project Syndicate
What was called ‘free trade’ in the West was only a phase of hyper-globalization that didn’t work equally well for all, while recent inward turns can be taken as a rebalancing of priorities.
India looking at FTAs for strategic considerations also, says Commerce Secretary
16-Aug-2023 Outlook India
India is looking at Free Trade Agreements not only from the trade point of view but also keeping in mind the country’s strategic needs, especially with regard to the smooth supply of critical minerals, a top government official said.
Europe and the ‘new Washington consensus’
13-Jul-2023 Global Policy Watch
US National Security Advisor promoted a ‘new Washington consensus’ in a speech, which fits very well in the current debate in Brussels on economic and trade policy.
‘India, EU can redo int’l economic order’
4-Jul-2023 Mint
A trade relationship between India and the European Union holds the potential to significantly reshape the global economic order, but the two entities need to find common ground on various issues first.
Trade: US trade policies a new form of “colonialism”?
29-Jun-2023 SUNS
The US policies in global trade appear somewhat like “old wine in new bottles,” with some semantic sophistry. It appears that “the more things change the more they remain the same” as regards the new forms of colonialism.