Noneconomic considerations for bilateral or regional trade agreements can be notoriously difficult to measure. In the case of US-Taiwan relations, one common factor defines the two countries’ security alliance: China. In this policy brief, we discuss a new metric we recently developed that...

Starving a nation of resources has a long history in foreign policy, from ancient sieges of cities to modern economic sanctions. Sanctions can take the form of a unilateral or multilateral trade embargo, or targeted trade and financial sanctions by a coordinated group of countries that cut off...

A geopolitical incident in the Taiwan Strait would pose two immediate risks to the US economy: (a) potential disruptions to digital flows from vulnerable submarine cables with landing stations in Taiwan and (b) the delay or disruption of container shipments in the Taiwan Strait and nearby waters...