Many multinational companies (MNCs) doing business in China find that issues of corruption in business are common and dangerous problems. Such problems can expose MNCs to liability under the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) with all of its attendant serious consequences. MNCs need to...

Although the United States has launched repeated attacks on China’s human rights policies for the past three decades, China’s Communist Party has been able to mount an effective defense and counterattack that has resonated with China’s citizens, the most important constituency for the...

The United States has created the ultimate enforcement weapon for its intellectual property (IP) rights in Phase I of the 2020 U.S.-China Economic and Trade Agreement (USCTA). Under the USCTA, the United States has a unilateral right to declare China in breach of the treaty and to impose trade...

The United States and China have the two largest national economies in the world and are also the world’s leading proponents of Economic Nationalism. In this context, this term refers to the use of national policies to promote exports while creating barriers to imports and is a twenty first...

Political economy and international institutions -- Trade and domestic law -- Dispute settlement -- Trade rights enforcement through national law -- Trade in goods : customs and tariff law -- Core obligations of the WTO : most-favored-nation and national treatment -- Market access and non-tariff...

The ascendance of Donald J. Trump to the US Presidency coincided with the adoption of an aggressive US trade policy putting “America First” and backed by the use of unilateral trade sanctions by the US in defiance of the World Trade Organization. The basic tenets of US unilateralism, gleaned...

The election of Donald J. Trump to the US Presidency coincided with the US adoption of an “America First” policy in trade. This policy reflects an underlying theory of economic nationalism that is fundamentally at odds with the current approach of the multilateral trading system established...

Only days after his inauguration as U.S. President, Donald J. Trump withdrew the United States from the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a “mega” regional free trade agreement that would have established the world's largest free trade zone. Although President Trump announced that the...