Ambassador Fu Cong: “Europe will not become a vassal to China”
China’s top diplomat to the EU on sanctions, preventing a trade war and why Beijing won’t condemn Russia’s invasion.
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Rebuilding industry is a mistake. The West should focus on economic alliances instead
Joe Biden’s Inflation Reduction Act is laudable, but decades of decline cannot be reversed in a single presidential term.
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Ukraine might win its war – but it won’t help the West’s wider struggle against autocracy
Led by hawks in the Biden administration, liberal democracies are stumbling into a commercial cold war with Beijing.
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Why China and its trading allies are well placed to topple the dollar
After decades meting out sanctions and financial coercion, the US may soon feel its grip on world trade beginning to…
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The Washington consensus is dead
Europe, China and the US have all rejected free trade and globalisation. Protectionism is back.
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Two years on, our trade deal with the EU is a rotten turkey
A poll finds more than three quarters of companies believe the Brexit deal has been unhelpful to their business.
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What’s wrong with the British economy?
Our leaders have had no strategy and no vision of the country’s place in a deglobalising, post-Brexit landscape.
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The Brexiteers’ trade delusions have been exposed
We knew deals with Australia and New Zealand were of little economic value – they were a PR exercise for…
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Decoding Adam Smith
A new history of The Wealth of Nations shows how the Scottish thinker’s legacy became an economic battleground.
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The EU remains by far the UK’s biggest trading partner
In July exports to the US totalled £4bn, compared with £17.4bn to the EU.
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The economic cost of Brexit is only getting worse
Rather than starting a trade war with the EU, the UK needs to forge a practical and constructive relationship.
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The cost-of-Brexit chart that Rishi Sunak didn’t mention in the Budget
UK trade with the EU has fallen sharply, new figures from the Office for Budget Responsibility show.
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Will the problems at Felixstowe really cancel Christmas?
Dozens of container ships are queuing to offload their cargo at one of the UK’s largest ports, sparking fears about…
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