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May 5, 2025

Trade
Trade Calendar

Trade and tariffs are a central part of President Donald Trump’s international economic policy. Stay up to date with the Council on Foreign Relation’s calendar of significant trade-related events.

May 14, 2025

United States
World Economic Update

The World Economic Update highlights the quarter’s most important and emerging trends. Discussions cover changes in the global marketplace with special emphasis on current economic events and their i…

Play A worker manoeuvres a lift as financial headlines play across a ticker in Times Square

May 6, 2025

Asia
Is ASEAN Leaving the U.S. Behind on Trade?

The Southeast Asia trade group, China, Japan, and South Korea said they will work closely together due to “escalating trade protectionism.” Three CFR fellows explain how their U.S. relationship will …

A dock worker in a red outfit and helmet leans on a gray cart. He is surrounded by hte docks scaffolding and trailers from trucks

April 14, 2025

Trade
The Contentious U.S.-China Trade Relationship

President Donald Trump’s trade war with China that began in his first administration has snowballed into greater tensions between the world’s biggest economies, but experts say completely decoupling …

 A worker works on the production line of a high-end silk textile enterprise in Fuyang city, East China's Anhui province, March 5, 2025.

April 23, 2025

United States
The U.S. Trade Deficit: How Much Does It Matter?

President Trump has made reducing U.S. trade deficits a priority, but economists disagree over how much they matter and what to do about them.

Chinese steel factory

May 7, 2025

China
The President’s Inbox Recap: The U.S.-China Trade War

President Donald Trump’s tariff campaign against China has ignited a trade war with mutually disastrous economic consequences and no clear end in sight.

May 1, 2025

United States
The Stability of Nations and the Next World Order

Founder and CEO of AlphaGeo Parag Khanna discusses the rapidly evolving geopolitical system, how to comprehensively compare countries according to metrics that matter, and how ranking the stability o…

Play CEO of AlphaGeo Parag Khanna speas at the World Economic forum.

April 25, 2025

Trade
It All Comes Down to Trade

Tariffs and the bleak prospects for global trade dominated discussions at the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank Spring Meetings this week in Washington, DC. 

A drone view shows a cargo ship at Kwai Tsing Container Terminals in Hong Kong, China, April 16, 2025.

April 22, 2025

Asia Program
Singapore Holds an Election Amidst a World at (Trade) War

Singapore's ruling party faces domestic and economic headwinds ahead of upcoming elections.

Singapore Prime Minister Lawrence Wong

May 6, 2025

China
The U.S.-China Trade War, With Zoe Liu

Zongyuan Zoe Liu, Maurice R. Greenberg senior fellow for China studies at the Council, sits down with James M. Lindsay to discuss China’s response to President Donald Trump’s tariff hikes and what it…

Podcast Chinese laborers wearing blue uniforms hold and look at mechanical tech parts on a line in a factory.