Susan Collins secured targeted Canadian tariff relief for Maine industries, but her transactional carve-outs offer temporary political cover while doing nothing to resolve the broader trade war.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Washington and Beijing agreed to lower tariffs on non-sensitive goods, dodging structural reform and proving that managed trade has learned nothing from the past.
By Tom Beckwith ·
President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to tariff cuts in Washington, but temporary institutional machinery cannot prevent future trade war escalation.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Washington and Beijing cut tariffs on non-sensitive goods and open an incident channel, but five years out, trade coercion and technological decoupling will outlive the truce.
By Tom Beckwith ·
As Xi Jinping meets Donald Trump in Washington, a temporary truce extension and narrow artificial intelligence talks will leave the fundamental US-China conflict entirely unchanged.
By Tom Beckwith ·
Scott Bessent proposed an AI safety alert system to He Lifeng, but Washington prefers voluntary safeguards over real rules that strategic competitors will simply ignore
By Tom Beckwith ·
Washington and Beijing launch an artificial intelligence hotline and a new board of trade in New York, trading shallow diplomatic process for deep structural divergence.
By Tom Beckwith ·
As Donald Trump prepares to meet Xi Jinping to negotiate artificial intelligence and tariffs, Washington risks mistaking narrow technical fixes for a genuine shift in Beijing’s strategic ambitions.
By Tom Beckwith ·
US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent and Chinese Vice Premier He Lifeng meet at JPMorgan headquarters to extend a tariff truce while managing deep structural conflict ahead of Thursday's summit.
By Tom Beckwith ·
The hallmarks of a functioning international order are predictability and the rule of law.
By Klaus Berger ·
This isn't about tariffs; it’s about infrastructure—the kind that keeps goods moving, keeping people employed, and allowing communities to function.
By Josie Calloway ·
The current economic rhetoric emanating from the Republican wing of the GOP is a masterpiece of rhetorical contortionism—a desperate attempt to reconcile the myth of unfettered…
By Klaus Berger ·