All three of the WTO’s functions - administering multilateral trade rules, serving as a forum for trade negotiations, and providing a mechanism to settle trade disputes - are currently under...

On October 7, ECIPE hosted a discussion on the reform of Special and Differential Treatment (STD) in the WTO. The event started with a presentation of a forthcoming paper by Ms. Inu Manak and Mr....

In recent times there has been a lot of talk on how big China’s digital trade actually is and to what extent it poses a threat to the global economy. China is big and appears successful in digital...

According to Frank Lavin, former US Under Secretary of Commerce for International Trade, ‘trade negotiations should focus on managing what’s good rather than managing what’s bad'. However, US...

After the United States imposed $250billion of tariffs on Chinese goods based on its determination, under U.S. Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974, that China had violated trade agreements with the...

Huawei’s prominent role in 5G infrastructure could suggest that China is now ready to be a driving force on digital innovation. In addition, the country experienced an unprecedented surge of patent...

The Status Quo In January Aung Sang Suu Kyi stood at a platform in a brightly lit conference centre in Naypyidaw. The room was ostentatious and so was her speech. Citing the series of economic...

Last year was a difficult year for free trade and the international rules-based system. No doubt the US played an important role in this: It threatened old trade partners like Canada and the EU with...

Following the global financial crisis in 2008, the G-2 framework of a global strategic partnership was seen among observers as the way forward for US-China relations. Ten years later and the focus is...

By Tim Yu, a cybersecurity and technology policy analyst based in Hong Kong Over recent years, there has been a concerted effort from Asian regulators to ramp up their data protection regimes. In...