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China has yet to discover and adopt an alternative growth strategy that does not rely on a large trade surplus.
We can start with a simple principle: We should strive not for maximum openness in trade and finance, but for levels of openness that leave ample room for the pursuit of domestic social and economic objectives in rich and poor countries alike.
In fact, Iran has invested hundreds of millions of dollars in Syria, and annual bilateral trade tops a billion dollars.
While much was made of the migrant caravan making its way from Central America through Mexico, issues such as trade with China, Iran, North Korea, and even Russia and cyber subterfuge didn’t get much traction.
In the end, Trump will need House Democrats for money, sanctions, or approval of trade agreements.
Dying for Free TradeLast year was a bad one for free trade.
But, instead of breathing life into free trade in food, rural protectionism in rich countries seems to have killed the Doha Round – and, with it, potentially the whole multilateral trading regime.
Agriculture has always presented the greatest challenge to free-trade doctrine and its promise of empowering the poor, for it is one of the most distorted areas of global trade.
Leveraging Japan’s inability to feed itself, trade negotiators now argue that Japan needs to open up to imports or face being shut out of global food markets by fast-growing giants like China.
Rich and aging countries may finally become promoters, rather than opponents, of free trade in food.
Chinese behavior will put increasing political pressure on those of us in Europe and the US who are delighted about China’s economic success and who argue for free trade.
I hope that China’s sophisticated economic managers understand that either their country’s behavior will have to change, or we are likely to face a massive trade conflict and disruption of global commerce.
Realizing his recent proposal to establish a US_Middle East free trade area within a decade would lay a strong foundation.
He would reject multilateral trade deals and institutions, take a much tougher line on illegal immigration, and forge a new approach to defense and security alliances.
And they can expect tough measures by his administration if they have an enduringly large bilateral trade surplus with the US.
If it chooses to discard the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) trade agreement negotiated by the Obama administration with 12 Asia-Pacific economies, those countries, perhaps led by Japan or Australia, must be ready to carry on the deal, or something like it, among themselves.
To avoid being pushed around by Trump over trade or security, members of the EU and NATO must be prepared to stick together.
Given the possibility of trade wars, currency wars, and a renunciation of long-held security alliances within the next 9-12 months, it is time to put regional solidarity ahead of old enmities and the forces of fragmentation.
But with US President Donald Trump fulfilling his promise to adopt a more protectionist approach to trade – an effort that could spur retaliatory measures by other countries – that model is coming under increasing strain.
This is a startling reversal for the United States, which has served as the world’s main champion of free trade since the 1930s.
Of course, some of Trump’s predecessors adopted protectionist policies; but those arose out of actual negotiations with trade partners.
As Harvard’s Dani Rodrik has put it, “Trump’s trade restrictions have more of a unilateral, in-your-face quality.”
Tariffs won’t do much for America’s trade balance, either.
Trump and his advisers believe that international trade is a zero-sum game, and thus that tariffs are a direct route to smaller trade deficits.
But the real source of US trade deficits is macroeconomic imbalances in the US economy, such as excessive household consumption and fiscal deficits – imbalances that tariffs will do very little to address.
What Trump’s tariffs will do is raise the risk of a global trade war.
In response to increased trade restrictions, China could limit imports of aircraft or agricultural products such as soybeans from the US.
Even US allies have been bracing for a trade war.
The truth was stated clearly by Chinese President Xi Jinping in January 2017: “No one will emerge as the winner in a trade war.”
A global trade war would undermine economic recovery, hurting businesses and consumers by encumbering global supply chains and raising prices for imported goods.
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