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Even if China’s leadership wanted to, it could no longer clock its subjects from contact with Western goods, markets, ideas.
Reallocation of China’s large foreign-exchange assets away from low-yield US Treasury bonds to higher-yield infrastructure investment makes sense, and creates alternative markets for Chinese goods.
Shipping goods overland from China to Europe is still twice as expensive as trade by sea.
As Robert Zoellick, a former US Trade Representative and World Bank president, has argued, if a rising China contributes to the provision of global public goods, the US should encourage the Chinese to become a “responsible stakeholder.”
Fearing for the future, households have hoarded incremental income, rather than spending it on consumer goods.
Attempts to stimulate it will produce only higher prices as people spend more money on the same quantity of goods and services.
If their discussions do not go well, Trump could follow through on his threat to increase tariffs on a wide range of Chinese goods.
Perhaps Trump’s agenda is the more conventional aspiration to “open markets” for US exports, and it is entirely possible that the Chinese will offer to buy more of some category of goods after the G20 summit.
But such deals are typically meaningless – the goods were going to be bought anyway in some fashion.
This newfound awareness reflects the fact that it is intangible assets like digital software, not physical manufactured goods, that are driving the new phase of global growth.
While growth is not an end in itself, it enables the achievement of a broad set of societal goals, including the creation of economic and employment opportunities for millions of vulnerable and poor people and the provision of social goods like education, health care, and pensions.
Helping developing countries grow will stimulate investment opportunities for EU companies and open new markets for their goods.
During the Soviet era, Russia produced a vast array of technology-based industrial products, from airplanes to computers to sophisticated machine goods.
China will want to flex its muscles and proclaim to the world that the Party has delivered the goods to its people, while making the country strong and prosperous.
The West has therefore urged China to move toward multilateral processes that meet international standards, while doing more to provide global public goods.
Together, they will form not just a road, but a network to facilitate the transfer of goods and ideas across Eurasia.
What many citizens do want now is greater personal and political freedom, and greater control over government, so that scarce goods like housing are distributed more fairly.
If we use goods made from raw materials that are obtained from a poor country without the proceeds being used to benefit the people of that country, we become complicit in a particularly iniquitous form of grand larceny.
Many grew from the simple proposition that ordinary people could overcome adversity in the marketplace by banding together to buy and sell goods at reasonable prices, and quickly realized the added benefits of sharing knowledge among members, promoting inclusion, and building social capital.
If US growth accelerates, America’s capacity to consume other countries’ goods and services will increase, thereby boosting growth around the world.
That agreement could help South Africa triple its exports of agricultural goods.
The current-account balance, measuring the balance of trade in goods, services, net factor income, and transfer payments from abroad, is equal to national saving minus domestic investment.
If these countries liberalize their trade regimes, they will tend to import more US goods that compete with their own industries.
Just as free trade provides the lowest-cost goods and services, benefiting both consumers and the most efficient producers, global academic competition is making free movement of people and ideas, on the basis of merit, more and more the norm, with enormously positive consequences for individuals, universities, and countries.
The problem is that the world has long maintained a myopic focus on producing and consuming goods as cheaply as possible.
The result is a linear economy based on the rapid use, disposal, and replacement of goods.
Instead of selling products, businesses would retain ownership, selling the use of the goods they make as a service.
Moreover, Russia could be convinced to accept Ukraine’s pursuit of economic integration with the EU, in exchange for cooperative efforts to counter schemes to use Ukraine’s free-trade agreement with the EU as a back door for European goods entering the Russian market.
Despite the supremacy of the Mediterranean route for container traffic between Europe and the Far East, 72% of goods entering the European Union do so via northern European ports (for example, Le Havre, Antwerp, Rotterdam, Bremen, and Hamburg), whereas only 28% enter via southern European ports such as Barcelona, Marseille, Valencia, and Genoa.
Indeed, according to one study of the Port of Barcelona, the optimal distribution of container flow in economic and environmental terms would be 37% to the northern European ports and 63% to those in Southern Europe, given the final destination and origin of imported and exported goods.
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