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Averting Conflict by Promoting Commerce: The Case for a U.S.-China Investment Treaty

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The problems besetting the U.S.-China economic relationship today predate Donald Trump. They originate as the frictions one should expect when an incumbent economic power is compelled to accommodate the emergence of a rising challenger. Of course, Trump’s caustic approach to commercial and diplomatic relations threatens to worsen bilateral ties, but it also could shake things up enough to yield solutions to some of the most pressing problems.

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Notes

  1. 1.

    Bureau of the Census, Import and Export Statistics.

  2. 2.

    Ibid.

  3. 3.

    Wayne M. Morrison, “China-U.S. Trade Issues,” Congressional Research Service Report, July 30, 2018.

  4. 4.

    Ibid.

  5. 5.

    Ibid.

  6. 6.

    See the Foreign Investment Risk Review Modernization Act (S. 2098/H.R. 4311, FIRRMA for short).

  7. 7.

    U.S.-China Business Council, China’s WTO Compliance, September 20, 2013.

  8. 8.

    https://ustr.gov/sites/default/files/files/Press/Reports/China%202017%20WTO%20Report.pdf.

  9. 9.

    https://data.oecd.org/fdi/fdi-restrictiveness.htm.

  10. 10.

    https://www.cato.org/publications/policy-analysis/reversing-worrisome-trends-how-attract-retain-investment-competitive.

  11. 11.

    Congressional Research Service.

  12. 12.

    Bureau of Economic Analysis, Activities of U.S. Affiliates of Foreign Multinational Enterprises, 2016, www.bea.gov.

  13. 13.

    Daniel Ikenson, “A Compromise to Advance the Trade Agenda,” Cato Free Trade Bulletin No. 57, March 4, 2014.

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    Peter Goettler & Daniel Ikenson

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Goettler, P., Ikenson, D. (2019). Averting Conflict by Promoting Commerce: The Case for a U.S.-China Investment Treaty. In: Wenniges, T., Lohman, W. (eds) Chinese FDI in the EU and the US. Palgrave Macmillan, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-6071-8_5

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