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Lovely comments on future of US-China trade deal in Washington Post
See related: China, COVID-19, Economic Policy, New York State, Trade, U.S. Elections
Wilcoxen comments on Trump's (SAFE) Vehicles rule in Washington Post
See related: Federal, Infrastructure, United States
Taylor quoted in Washington Post article on Putin's post-presidency plans
"Since Putin cannot remain as president after 2024 under the current rules, he needs to change the rules. This will potentially allow him to remain the dominant political actor even if he leaves the presidency," says Professor of Political Science Brian Taylor.
See related: Government, Russia
Lovely speaks to Bloomberg, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post about US-China trade deal
The new system "is a gigantic finger in the eye of WTO," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. "The decider will be the trade representative in consultation with the president."
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Lovely comments on Phase One China trade deal in Associated Press, Washington Post
"It’s a very toxic brew and I don’t know that we’re really going to see much progress on it," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics, about the first phase of a U.S.-China trade agreement.
See related: China, Economic Policy, Trade, United States
Schmeller discusses how the poinsettia came to the US in Washington Post
See related: International Affairs, Latin America & the Caribbean, United States
Wilcoxen weighs in on EPA regulatory rollbacks in Washington Post
See related: Energy, Environment, United States
Ma explains why Chinese students study abroad in Washington Post piece
Yingyi Ma, professor of sociology, suggests that Chinese students are motivated to study abroad because of disappointment with the Chinese education system, which they assert “stifles creativity” and “entails hellish hours of studying.”
See related: China, U.S. Education
Lovely speaks with NY Times, PBS, Washington Post about USMCA trade deal
"Clearly, the U.S. is trying to gain advantage in the agreement, and we did. We were able to squeeze some stuff out," says Mary Lovely, professor of economics. We "got an agreement that was basically the NAFTA agreement with some updating."
See related: Canada, Economic Policy, Latin America & the Caribbean, Trade, United States
Gueorguiev article on China, dictatorship published in Washington Post
"Democracy is not the same thing as providing for the population’s needs...the CCP will never commit to trusting the public over its own political interests. It will resort to force when necessary, as it has in the past, and this use of force is the very essence of dictatorship," writes Dimitar Gueorguiev, assistant professor of political science.
See related: China, Government