As of December 11th the WTO appellate body will cease to function following US refusal to appoint new judges. In effect, the WTO dispute resolution…
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On Sunday, the Hong Kong municipal elections were a spectacular success for pro-democracy activists opposed to supporters of the Chinese Communist Party line. Turnout (some…
International trade as a percentage of GDP soared in the post-war years. In this issue of our Globalization Outlook we ask: was it ever viable…
Faced with the persistence of the pro-democracy mass movement within Hong Kong’s “special administrative region”, the all-powerful Chinese president is not sure what to do….
The day before yesterday, we had Boris Johnson’s Brexit. Yesterday, we had the strengthening of American protectionism by Donald Trump, on behalf of the America…
This article was first published in CityAM When my colleague and I published a book entitled “The Death of Liberal Democracy?” in August 2016, many…
Let us be clear. China is a repressive, authoritarian state. It suppresses all dissent and free speech and blocks access to the internet. It runs…
We’ve never seen this in Hong Kong before. Neither during the time of British colonization (1841-1997), nor in the current period of the ‘One Country…
On June 6, celebrating the 75th anniversary of their landing in Normandy, the Great Western Allied Powers had invited Germany to the festivities. But no…
In this month’s Globalisation Outlook we argue that the US-China trade conflict is perilously close to escalation a growing perception that the US economy is…
This article was first published in The Mint Magazine It has become fashionable to talk about the China shock – the disruption to the international…
Will 21st century China some day dominate Asia? Will it succeed in building its neighbourhood that which the United States, guided by the Monroe doctrine, built…