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Obama should be eager to stress that India’s exclusion from the TPP is a matter solely of geography – India does not abut the Pacific – and that the US wants to increase bilateral trade and direct investment by American firms.
During the campaign, Trump promised to label China a currency manipulator on his first day in office; end the “One China” policy (recognizing Taiwan as part of greater China) that has long guided Sino-American relations; and impose a high tariff on Chinese imports, to shrink the bilateral trade deficit.
Reducing the bilateral trade deficit will not decrease the overall US trade deficit, because that is the result of the difference between investment and saving in the US.
A lower bilateral trade deficit with China will just mean a larger trade deficit – or a smaller surplus – with some other country.
A multilateral imbalance – especially one that it is traceable to a saving shortfall – cannot be fixed by putting pressure on a bilateral exchange rate.
Globalized production platforms distort bilateral trade data between the US and China, and have little to do with the exchange rate.
Unfortunately, the latest political incident involving the democracy-promoting activities of American NGOs has cooled bilateral relations and threatens the $1.3 billion in military assistance that Egypt receives annually from the United States.
Germany has relatively balanced trade with China, even recording a modest bilateral surplus in the post-crisis period.
But, while the total reflects bilateral deficits with just about everyone, the US Congress is obsessed with China, and appears convinced that the primary cause of the problem lies in Chinese manipulation of the renminbi’s exchange rate.
The likely result would be a downward spiral of retaliatory restrictions on bilateral trade and investment flows, which would hurt both economies.
This bilateral initiative comes on the heels of a decade in which America abstained from international efforts to address climate change, concerned that if it acts but China doesn’t, the world will fail to meet its emission-reduction targets and US industry will be disadvantaged.
In its bilateral relations with India, China’s shift in focus from its claims on the Northeastern Indian state of Arunachal Pradesh to Jammu and Kashmir is enormously worrisome.
That is a convenient international ploy, but it leaves the sources of bilateral discord unattended.
For decades, successive US presidents have understood that the careful management of the bilateral relationship with China is vital to America’s national interests.
For starters, while economists are correct to point out that bilateral trade deficits cannot be considered in isolation, the fact remains that China’s surplus with the US – which hit a new record in September – is politically unsustainable.
If fixing the bilateral trade relationship is too hard at this juncture, perhaps Trump should pursue cooperation with China in some other area.
The US and the EU (taken as a whole) are not only the world’s two largest economies and typically the largest commercial partners for other major economies; they also maintain the world’s largest bilateral trade relationship.
Indeed, it is estimated that one-third of all bilateral US-EU trade consists of internal transfers by companies that operate in both markets.
There was talk of possible bilateral contacts with the US, which, if successful, would have ended almost three decades of hostile relations.
Some of the measures even endangered bilateral relations.
In the last year alone, Putin and Israeli Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu have held five meetings and deepened bilateral ties.
With the bilateral relationship at such a low point, it is somewhat promising that both sides agreed during Tillerson’s visit to establish working groups for improving it.
Until recently, the bilateral relationship has tended to be guided by a transatlantic, trans-Eurasian perspective, while ignoring the trans-Pacific option.
But the value of the bilateral relationship extends far beyond the war on terror.
This began to change with the rapid proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), which typically granted private investors standing before the ICSID.
Moreover, immense pressure in the US to undertake fiscal consolidation, reflected in President Barack Obama’s latest budget proposal, should reduce US import demand, further reducing the bilateral imbalance.
Only normal bilateral relations will allow the two countries to work together to forge a lasting Asian balance of power.
When it comes to politics, bilateral relations prevail, and from that standpoint France and Germany seem more important than Great Britain.
The terms of this lending are so murky that only China has information about the volume, maturity, and cost of outstanding loans, which are issued on a bilateral basis, often for political or strategic reasons.
What is required, therefore, is an open bilateral French-German dialogue about a comprehensive realignment of the monetary union.
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