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As the United States nears its 250th birthday, the Trump administration’s turn toward protectionism, anti-immigration policies and isolationism starkly contrasts with the founding principles of free trade, open borders and international engagement laid out in the Declaration of Independence.

COMMENTARY / World

Trump’s rejection of America’s founding principles

By Steve Pincus

Without free trade, free immigration and internationalism, America resembles what its founders rebelled against.

Chinese Finance Minister Lan Fo'an speaks at the China Development Forum 2024 in Beijing in March 2024.

COMMENTARY / World / Geoeconomic Briefing

Can China become a defender of free trade?

By Hotaka Machida

The trillion-dollar question is: Does Beijing’s rhetoric match reality and how sincere is China when it claims to be a “defender” of free trade?

Tokyo’s skyline keeps evolving, but the country’s drab, outdated government district, long hours, low pay and poor work conditions are driving young bureaucratic talent away just when it needs them most.

COMMENTARY / Japan

Tokyo is missing 'Blade Runner' where it needs it most

By Gearoid Reidy

Until the 1960s, Japan had strict prohibitions on developments higher than 31 meters (around 100 feet), a provision that kept cities dense but low.

Tokyo’s skyline keeps evolving, but the country’s drab, outdated government district, long hours, low pay and poor work conditions are driving young bureaucratic talent away just when it needs them most.

Japan

Tokyo is missing 'Blade Runner' where it needs it most

By Gearoid Reidy

Until the 1960s, Japan had strict prohibitions on developments higher than 31 meters (around 100 feet), a provision that kept cities dense but low.

Japan / Geoeconomic Briefing

Japan needs to take the quantum-technology leap

By Wakana Asano

Japan

Donald Trump’s ‘copy-and-paste’ tariffs will no doubt rile ‘Mr. Japan’

By Gearoid Reidy

Japan

EU-CPTPP talks highlight shared goals and stubborn obstacles

By Brad Glosserman

Japan

Japan’s Do It Yourself Party: Who we are and where we are headed

By Sohei Kamiya

Japan

Sizing up the forthcoming Upper House election

By Michael MacArthur Bosack

Japan

The dilemma facing Japan’s rising (and falling) populist parties

By Rintaro Nishimura

China’s economy shows signs of a possible recovery despite structural challenges and imperfect GDP data, but its future growth and global impact hinge on trade relations with the U.S. and how economic progress is measured.

World

Taking GDP out of the China equation

By Daniel Moss

There are problems with looking at China’s vitality through the GDP lens — the data is widely perceived to be finessed by officials

World

Online dissent in China doesn’t mean Xi is on his way out

By Yujing Shentu

World / Geoeconomic Briefing

Air superiority vs. air denial: Redefining U.S. airpower strategy

By Sadamasa Oue

World

Michelle Obama is quitting politics. Or is she?

By Nia-Malika Henderson

World

Ursula Von der Leyen faces a moment of truth

By Alberto Alemanno

World

When an HIV scientific breakthrough isn’t enough

By Lisa Jarvis

World / Geoeconomic Briefing

Unchecked and unbalanced: The future of U.S. economic policymaking

By Paul Nadeau

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