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Op-Eds
Trump’s tariffs as fiscal folly
via VoxEU
Op-Eds
The New “China Shock” Is Hitting Poor Countries the Hardest
Shoumitro Chatterjee (Johns Hopkins University) and Arvind Subramanian (PIIE)
via Project Syndicate
Op-Eds
There are no good arguments against the Ukraine reparations loan
via Euractiv
Op-Eds
How Beijing’s collateral play can rattle the creditor-borrower balance
via Financial Times
Speeches & Papers
US tariff policy: At this time, the brakes don’t work
Speeches & Papers
How Many Manufacturing Jobs Will Trump’s Tariffs Create? And at What Cost?
via American Enterprise Institute
Op-Eds
What Would a China Chip Blockade Cost?
via Foreign Policy
Speeches & Papers
Using AI to support the core functions of the WTO of the future
Op-Eds
Russia’s Long Shadow over China’s Push for a New Global Order
Alicia García-Herrero (Bruegel) and Elina Ribakova (PIIE)
via CommonWealth Magazine
Op-Eds
This Economy Might Be a ‘New Normal’