Maxwell School News and Commentary
Filtered by: East Asia
Steinberg op-ed on US-Japan relations published in Nikkei Asian Review
"If the U.S., under Trump or a successor, continues to take Japan's support for granted while ignoring Japan's interests, the U.S. grand strategy for the Indo-Pacific, which depends so heavily on allied support for bases and operations, could become increasingly untenable," writes University Professor James Steinberg.
See related: East Asia, U.S. Foreign Policy, U.S. National Security, United States
Boroujerdi discusses Japanese PM's visit to Iran in ThinkProgress
See related: East Asia, Foreign Policy, Middle East & North Africa
Lovely weighs in on redirecting production away from China in Christian Science Monitor
Already production of shoes, apparel, toys and other "footloose" industries has been shifting from China to Vietnam and other countries, partly due to rising wages in China, says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.
Ma quoted in SCMP article on Chinese students in US, visa challenges
"Many students are scared away already by the new policies even before going through the visa hurdles," says Yingyi Ma, associate professor of sociology.
See related: China, Government, U.S. Education, United States
Lovely explains how the trade war hurts Americans in CNN article
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Lovely speaks with Associated Press, NPR, NY Times about the US-China trade war
"It looks like there was a level of specificity that China wasn’t willing to accept and a level of ambiguity that the Trump administration wasn’t willing to accept," Mary Lovely, professor emerita of economics, told the New York Times.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Lovely discusses US-China trade war with ABC News, Marketplace, Wall Street Journal
"I think that if President Trump goes through and raises these tariffs and then China retaliates, there will be a lot more pain and no gain," says Professor of Economics Mary Lovely.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Lovely discusses US-China trade, tariffs on Bloomberg, CGTN
"It’ll hit the pocketbooks of the working class hard," Professor Mary Lovely said about Trump's recent trade-war threat to increase tariffs.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
US and China resume trade talks, Lovely comments in Associated Press
"The two bullies in the room are basically running the show. The rest of the world is going to have to deal with the aftermath," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States