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U.S.-Taiwan Initiative on 21st Century Trade Prof. Steve Charnovitz I support the Biden Administration's efforts to improve cooperation with Taiwan. Strengthening Taiwan's economic and political sovereignty is important both for the people of Taiwan and for stability in East Asia.  Taiwan improved its international

Summary of 21 Tweets in honour of the Glasgow COP26 conference beginning today

This global forum of ideas has been quiet in recent days, so I can inject a dozen of my recent tweets on the global ecolonomy.  @SteveCharnovitz "#Globalsecurity" should be the new lens for analyzing global threats such as lab-created viruses and cyberterrorism. A "national security" lens

The Biden Administration has appointed Thea Lee to be the Deputy Under Secretary for International Labor Affairs.  This is a thoughtful appointment to an agency that has had an important trade role for at least six decades.  I wish her good luck in having the labor voice heard in the

I commend the new essay in Barron's by my colleague Susan Aarsonon "How Nations Can Build Online Trust Through Trade". Her scholarly contributions to the development of effective trade policy are always enlightening. https://www.barrons.com/articles/how-nations-can-build-online-trust-through-trade-51620139281?mod=hp_COMMENTARY_4

The global dialogue here has been more quiet than usual, so here are some of my economic law tweets over the past week:  @SteveCharnovitz. @SecRaimondo should strengthen USDOC programs without violating international trade law. Recalling my work in the 1970s with Hal Williams to establish the Commerce-Labor Adjustment Action Committee,

This Blog has been a little slow during a holy week, so here are a few of my tweets (@SteveCharnovitz) on how to improve a troubled global ecolonomy: Congress should quickly pass a law enabling Biden to ratify the 2016 Kigali Amendment which sets rules for the production, consumption, and

Possible Trade Law Violations in Biden's America Jobs Plan Steve Charnovitz 31 March 2021 The White House has released a description of the Biden Administration's new infrastructure plan and, as expected, the plan contains several domestic content programs that may violate US obligations under the World

This Blog has long served as a global marketplace of ideas on national and international economic law.  The market seems less active than it used to be, so I am posting a few of my Tweets of the past week: Trump’s unfair attacks on dispute system of the World

US President Biden gave his first foreign policy address today -- suitably at the State Department.  Here is the link for it: https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/speeches-remarks/2021/02/04/remarks-by-president-biden-on-americas-place-in-the-world/. In general, the speech was well formulated and realigns the United States with its foreign policy of the