The EU doesn’t want to be the battle ground for the trade and technological war between China and the US. Trapped between these two powers, Europe feels as dependent on US big-tech as it claims to...

Consumers are supposed to be the major beneficiaries of trade deals, receiving greater choice at lower prices as the result of the removal of barriers to trade. Given this, there is often frustration...

‘Buy American’, ‘Dual Circulation’, ‘Strategic Autonomy’ – these, and similar ideas, have been around or in gestation for some time.  They are based on governments’ assessments...

President Biden will enter the White House to considerable goodwill from an international community mostly relieved that they don’t have to put up with another four years of President Trump. The...

Covid-19 turned the world upside down. Globalisation is no longer seen as a force for good but a source of uncertainty. The second wave of Covid-19 has reignited discussions among political leaders...

A new consensus is growing across the European Union – and other parts of the world too: that globalisation has gone too far. The argument goes as follows: as an exchange for higher efficiency and...

In the movie “Gold”, a small, struggling mining entrepreneur looking for gold goes from bankruptcy to a 6 billion dollar mining empire, and then bankruptcy again. Bear with me, there is a link...

If there were to be another pandemic, what would you have done differently? This question should be at the front of any policy-maker. Covid-19 has been costly but some countries have coped better...

Global trade policy is in poor health. The relevance and integrity of the WTO have been eroded. Trade wars and commercial frictions have replaced the past spirit of gradually expanding the scope for...

The trade answer to the coronavirus crisis has been a mix of openness and protectionism. Countries have lowered import duties (examples here, here, and here), imposed export restrictions (here and...