Dr. Shuaihua 'Wallace' Cheng is the Managing Director, Global Economic Governance Initiatives, International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD), Member of ICTSD Operation, Programme and Strategy Board. Currently, he co-manages WTO Post-Nairobi Programme and China, G20 and Global Economic Governance, New Industrial Policy Group, the E15 Initiative in partnership with the World Economic Forum. Dr Cheng is also Adjunct Professor at the University of International Business and Economics (Beijing), Associate Editor of Advances in Climate Change Research Journal of China National Climate Change Centre (Beijing), Member of Asia Society's Asia 21 Advisory Committee (New York), and Member of the Evian Group Working Group on Trade (Lausanne). Before joining ICTSD,he was an economist at the Shanghai Municipal Government Development Research Centre and Board Secretary of the Shanghai WTO Affairs Consultation Center. Dr Cheng is Yale World Fellow (2015), Asia 21 Young Leader (2007), British Chevening Scholar (2005), Salzburg Seminar Fellow (2000).
Presidents Xi and Trump should focus less on skirmishes to seek reciprocal concessions, but rather offer political support for a durable resolution of their differences.
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G20 leaders need a smarter approach to protectionist policies that threaten free trade. But first, they need a legal definition of what 'protectionism' means.
The leaders of the US and China will meet this week in a high-stakes encounter for both the global economy and their own political careers.
Los líderes del G20 deben hablar con franqueza sobre las consecuencias negativas de la globalización y dejar claro que no han abandonado a las personas que fueron relegadas.
As trade liberalization and globalization more broadly are called into question, G20 leaders must act.
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As G20 leaders meet this week in Hangzhou, China, Shuaihua Cheng looks at three things they should be doing.
For the US and the EU, it’s time to start treating the world’s second largest economy as equally and fairly as it deserves.
