Despite an increasingly difficult political terrain--including deep divisions between the two major parties over trade policy, as well as equally deep intra-party divisions with the Democratic Party--U.S. presidents and the U.S. executive have adopted remarkably unified goals.

The goal of this paper is to analyze the evolution of trade relations between the United States and China, against the background of rising East Asian regionalism.

This conference will consist of back-to-back sessions in which presenters and panelists will analyze trade and investment trends in East Asia and discuss the evolution of East Asian economic institutions, including APEC, the ASEAN Plus 3 process, and the East Asian Summit. These discussions will be based upon two chapters...

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In his new book, Korea in Asia: Korea’s Development, Asian Regionalism, and U.S.-Korean Economic Relations, AEI’s Claude E. Barfield advances a series of recommendations for new directions for Korean development, particularly with regards to the service and high-technology sectors. He...

This informative and insightful book examines trade and other economic issues relevant to the U.S.-Korea relationship.

Over the past two decades, the United States has increasingly balanced its prime commitment to the multilateral trading system and the GATT/WTO with supplemental negotiations for regional trade agreements and bilateral agreements with nations around the entire trading world. Under the George W. Bush administration, this multidimensional approach—“competitive liberalization,” as...

Since the 1990s, China has coordinated its economic expansion with strategic, political, and foreign policy objectives. Through bilateral trade agreements, World Trade Organization accession in 2001, greater involvement in regional institutions like the ASEAN Plus Three, and numerous soft-power initiatives, the People’s Republic of China (PRC) has embarked upon what...

How will Taiwan defend itself in the coming years? What is the outlook for Taiwan’s ties with Japan, Europe and the United States? A group of experts will discuss these and other questions at this special AEI event.