Delegations from China and the US are discussing the risks and opportunities in trade for both countries in London. However, according to former US trade negotiator Harry Broadman, stability in trade relations is crucial for any outcomes that may follow those negotiations, as he notes at Al Jazeera. Unfortunately, processes for those stable relations are lacking, he adds.Read More →
For a week, US President Trump has been speculating on how a call with his Chinese counterpart, Xi Jinping, will solve their trade issues. Harry Broadman, a former US trade representative, explains in Politico why Trump is wrong.Read More →
Harry Broadman, a former assistant U.S. trade representative in the administrations of George H.W. Bush and Bill Clinton, tells Politico that China proved to be much less of a pushover than the Trump team expected it to be when they started to impose tariffs. “Whoever is advising him clearly does not understand China.”Read More →
In Al Jazeera, Harry Broadman, a former US assistant trade representative and one of the chief negotiators of the WTO, wonders what Trump’s real plan is with these tariffs when it comes to China, decoupling or ending all business. “He’s obviously a deals guy in real estate, but not international markets … How he thinks is, ‘How can I win and how can I make the opponent lose?’” he said.Read More →
While the stiff inflation rate was one of the key reasons US voters preferred Trump over Harris, Trump’s announced China tariffs would increase the costs for US consumers, warns Harry Broadman, former U.S. assistant trade representative in the George H. W. Bush administration in Dow Jones.Read More →
China is heading for a fundamental breakdown, argues Harry Broadman, Partner, and Chair, Emerging Markets Practice, Berkeley Research Group LLC, at a wide-ranging speech at the Charleston Chamber of Commerce, November 2022 (Charleston, South Carolina). It started by bailing out investors at its stock markets, which are no real markets, he says. Read More →
The sanctions put on Russia because of the Ukraine crisis by the US and its allies might move Russian trade to China, says Harry Broadman, a former US trade negotiator, and World Bank official, to Reuters.Read More →
China entry into the World Trade Organization (WTO) was twenty years ago seen as a success for the global trade, but then the WTO was unable to enforce its rules onto its new member, says Harry Broadman, chief of staff of the US President’s council of economic advisers (1990-1991) and US assistant trade representative (1991-1993) in an interview with Politico. What are the options to deal with China in international trade?Read More →
China did not comply with the conditions it signed up for when it entered the World Trade Organization (WTO), says former White House advisor Harry Broadman at the NACD Northern California Chapter in a discussion about American business in China. And while US president Joe Biden has taken on China bilaterally, it needs collective action to change the country’s attitude to trade, he adds.Read More →
The G7 planned during its certain meeting an alternative for China’s Belt&Road Initiative, to halt the country’s international leverage, the Build Back Better World (B3W). But former White House advisor Harry Broadman has serious doubts whether the new plan will be effective at all, he tells according to the GTReview.Read More →
Former White House advisor Harry Broadman looks at US president Biden’s trip to Europe, the G7, and NATO, and explains why China should be also on the agenda of NATO for Cheddar News.Read More →
The major economies in the G-7 need more investments in R&D and collaboration in science and technology to compete with China, says former US assistant trade representative Harry Broadman at CNBC. “We’ve done really well among democratic countries collaborating on investment and trade, but we’ve done an extraordinarily poor job in R&D,” he said.Read More →