The time is right for the U.S. to get tough and support the expansion of rules-based trade.
China
April 9, 2012
Cheap Chinese solar exports post more than just a competitiveness problem for the United States, as China’s green mercantilist policies pose a significant barrier to clean energy innovation.
April 4, 2012
CERC is an indication China and the U.S. can move to a positive clean energy relationship.
February 28, 2012
It is time for policymakers in the United States and other countries to wake up to the facts on Chinese trade policies and begin responding to today’s reality.
February 28, 2012
The United States and other countries should begin responding to today’s reality for Chinese mercantilism represents a fundamental threat to not only the U.S. economy, but to the entire system of market and rules-based globalization.
February 28, 2012
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February 17, 2012
U.S. needs to take more action domestically and internationally to contain Chinese trade practices that could harm the global trading system.
January 6, 2012
Highlights from this post include clean energy innovation and DOD as well as the solar energy battle with China.
November 29, 2011
BCG’s recent report painting a sanguine view of the state of American manufacturing fails to get the facts right.
October 19, 2011
There are lots of jobs we can get back from China if they stopped manipulating their currency.
May 20, 2011
The U.S. response to Chinese innovation policy will shape U.S. economic prospects for decades to come.
May 2, 2011
Adam Segal and Rob Atkinson debate the threat of China's innovation policies.
March 23, 2011
While developed countries and global institutions provide China billions in foreign aid, China refuses to open its markets to foreign clean energy products.
January 19, 2011
ITIF Research Fellow Scott Andes reports from Ghana on how China's intellectual property theft hurts the poor.
November 29, 2010
As the contactless mobile payments market in China begins to rev up, the United States increasingly risks being passed by.
November 17, 2010
The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission issued its 2010 Annual Report, a scathing indictment of China’s mercantilist economic growth strategy.
November 18, 2009
This report benchmarks clean energy competitiveness in four nations: China, Japan, South Korea and the United States.
January 30, 2008
In a recent Huffington Post blog posting, Rob Atkinson argues that, instead of embracing growth policies to raise productivity in all the sectors of its economy, China, like many developing nations, has erected neo-mercantilist policies designed to favor a few select export sectors. Not only are these trade practices unfair, but they are not the best way to raise living standards – in China and elsewhere. It’s time to develop a new global consensus that domestic productivity growth should be the key focus of economic policy in every nation.