An Economic Perspective
Dec 29,2017 Special Forum

An Economic Perspective

The election of Donald Trump as president of the United States in November 2016 created shock waves across the Asian countries that had been the targets of his campaign rhetoric. Candidate Trump had accused China of “outrageous theft of intellectual property, … illegal product dumping, and … devastating currency manipulation,” characterized the South Korea-US free […]

William W. Grimes
BRI , CPTPP , Donald Trump , KORUS FTA , RCEP , TPP
Apr 15,2016 Open Forum

The Belt & Road Initiative as Power Resource: Lessons from Japan

In 2013, the Chinese government announced its plans to establish the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) and to pursue a massive regional infrastructure plan initially called either the “New Silk Road” or the “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR), and now officially termed the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The simultaneous push to create a new […]

William W. Grimes
"Belt and Road" Initiative , ADB , AIIB , MITI , Transactional power
Mar 21,2014 Topics of the Month

TPP – 3

In the two months since my original article for The Asan Forum, TPP appears to have stalled. News reports of the most recent negotiating round, as well as US-Japan bilateral negotiations over agricultural products, suggest that there has been little if any progress since the December negotiations in Singapore. While this is a disappointment for […]

William W. Grimes
Automobile tariffs , Economic integrations , market-distorting institutions , TPP , Trade Promotion Authority (TPA)
TPP – 2
Feb 21,2014 Topics of the Month

TPP – 2

My article in The Asan Forum on TPP has received a number of comments, including T.J. Pempel’s rejoinder and a vigorous debate on the Japan Forum LISTSERV sponsored by the National Bureau of Asian Research (NBR). There have also been developments in TPP negotiations and the US Trade Promotion Authority (TPA) debate that are relevant […]

William W. Grimes
Capital controls , intellectual property rights , rules of origin , Shinzo Abe , structural reform , the Diet , TPP , US Congress