Posts tagged with: Trade Policy
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Media: Icelandic National Broadcasting Service – Radio 1 “Spegillinn.”
Subjects: President Obama’s trip to Shanghai and Beijing, and the U.S.-China relationship.
Length: 5:42.
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No small number of experts and non-experts are pointing out that the lack of an Obama trade policy is devastating our credibility in Asia–and that, niceties aside, Obama is bringing little to the table on his trip to Asia this week. But the story just got even worse.
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Regionalism, Trade, and American Engagement
I’ve been working for the past few months on preparing a report, The United States in the New Asia, which was released today by the Council on Foreign Relations. The authors, Evan Feigenbaum and Bob Manning, are veterans of the Bush administration with a deep appreciation for Asian sensibilities.
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Date: 14 October 2009.
Author: Daniel Michaeli
Presentation to the Young Professionals in Foreign Policy grand strategy and South Asia discussion groups at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington, DC.
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Why the U.S. Must Engage ASEAN on Trade
Dick Lugar, Republican U.S. senator from Indiana, announced today that he will introduce legislation next week to ask the Obama administration to pursue free trade negotiations with ASEAN. This is good news, though the chances of successfully changing administration policy on trade are dim.
In my view, opening up trade with ASEAN is important for at least three reasons:
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The value of the dollar has taken a hit as rumors spread that oil producers are exploring a scheme to price oil in a basket of currencies instead of the U.S. dollar. (The Wall Street Journal subsequently reported that Gulf officials “strongly denied” the rumors.)
This week’s news follows a year in which more and more banks and foreign governments have voiced concern that the U.S. dollar will weaken in the coming years. This has been discussed most openly in Asia, where China and Japan’s massive foreign exchange reserves are at risk.
But should demand for the dollar fall significantly, it is the United States that would suffer most. The U.S. could face a crippling debt crisis unlike any previous economic crisis we have faced in the last two centuries.