... approaches to intellectual property, and addressing other problematic issues.
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However, the implementation of those agreements stalled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
After returning to the White House in 2025, Donald Trump resumed his policy of aggressive trade wars. He declared a state of emergency due to the negative trade balance of the U.S., significantly raising tariffs on over 50 countries, including China.
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In other words, the trade war extends beyond U.S. — China relations, although the volume ...
External political factors may have a growing influence on Russian-Chinese economic relations
Economic relations between Russia and China remain high. Beijing has become Moscow's most important trading partner, and in the context of Western sanctions, it has also become an alternative source of industrial and consumer goods, as well as the largest market for Russian energy and other raw materials. At the same time, external political factors may have a growing influence on Russian-Chinese economic...
... China have not disappeared. This means that the risk of sanctions will persist regardless of success in resolving the trade war.
Xu Wenhong::
The SWIFT System: A Focus on the U.S.–Russia Financial Confrontation
The key difference between sanctions and trade wars is the existence of specific political goals. By introducing economic restrictions, the country which initiates them is trying to force the target country to introduce political changes or to make decisions favourable to it. Of course, trade ...
... the afore-mentioned changes.
What Kind of Sanctions Are We Talking About?
The concept of sanctions includes a fairly wide range of restrictive measures and requires a clear conceptual framework. To begin with, economic sanctions are different from trade wars. These two concepts are often confused in the Asian region, especially when it comes to relations between the US and China. In fact, they differ both in goals and in methods. Trade wars are aimed to achieve economic advantages for national ...
The discord between Tokyo and Seoul threatens to dismantle the current global technological chain in microelectronics
In the summer of 2019, a trade conflict broke out between Tokyo and Seoul and the matter is about more than the history between the two countries. The two developed economies have long been locked in a competition on the global cutting-edge technologies market. At the same time, they are links in the same technological chain.
At first glance, the exchange of trade restrictions that...
... the multipolar world, the impact of new technologies on world politics, regional crises in the Middle East and Africa, etc. Andrey Kortunov, RIAC Director General, made a speech at the plenary session on the future world order in the context of global trade wars.
Andrey
Kortunov also had a meeting with Mikhail Kamynin, Russian Ambassador to
Portugal, and Alexander Bryantsev, Counselor of the Russian Embassy in Lisbon,
to discuss the issues of expanding the interaction between Russian and
Portuguese ...
