Articles by Claude Barfield
The US and China: Strategic Disconnect
President Bush and Chinese president Hu Jintao will have a full plate of immediate issues when they meet on Thursday, April 20. The United States will undoubtedly push for: Greater flexibility for Chinese currency rates, Stepped up enforcement of intellectual...
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The Doha Round: Bang or Whimper?
While there is a solid consensus that the December WTO Hong Kong Ministerial meeting produced only meager results, a cacophony of voices and opinions has emerged regarding the final outcome of the Doha Round -- and, indeed, how soon the...
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Avoiding an Air War
The legal maxim that "hard cases make bad law" may well play out again in the developing high-stakes brawl between the U.S. and the EU over alleged subsidies to Boeing and Airbus in the construction and launch of new...
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What Happened to 'Compete, Not Retreat'?
Certainly neither candidate or party has a monopoly on the right course for future public policy, but at least in one area -- international trade policy -- supporters of free trade and more open, competitive markets (including the U.S....
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The G-8: Abolish or Transform It
Sometime in the next day or two I am sure to get calls from reporters at leading newspapers asking me to comment on the prospects and significance of the declarations that will conclude the annual meeting (Tuesday-Thursday) of heads...
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"National Champions": The Real "Old Europe"
Whatever one thinks about the validity of Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's distinction between "old" and "new" Europe vis-à-vis the war in Iraq, there is little doubt that the actions of the French government, dictating the merger between Sanofi Synthelabo...
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Destined to Fail
Though last-minute compromises may paper over fundamental disagreements regarding central environmental goals at the Johannesburg Summit, there is already a theme of failure emanating from this vast and disparate assemblage of government officials, public interest
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