Free trade is in trouble. That’s hardly startling news when the U.S. has an avowed protectionist in the White House, but the problem runs deeper than it may at first appear. Start with the distinction ...

Canzuk: a proposal for closer economic and social ties between Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom.

On Feb. 19, 1904, a young English politician delivered a speech at Free Trade Hall in Manchester, England. For more than 90 minutes, he spoke with precision, wit, and humor, drawing guffaws as he ...

US Delegation, including US Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer (2nd R) and Secretary of Commerce Wilbur Ross (R) talks with the Chinese Delegation including Vice Premier Liu He (2nd L) during ...

China urged Japan and South Korea on Monday to reject "protectionism" and uphold free trade as the countries met in a trilateral summit in Seoul. Chinese Premier Li Qiang said he opposed turning ...

In an exclusive article for Nhan Dan, the official newspaper of Vietnam's Communist Party, Chinese President Xi Jinping wrote that "trade war and tariff war will produce no winner, and protectionism ...

There are more books with “Napoleon” in their titles than there have been days since the death of the French emperor and general in 1821. So reports Andrew Roberts in his magisterial biography of the ...

President Joe Biden recently landed a victory in panda diplomacy with the announcement that China is sending two giant pandas to the National Zoo in Washington, D.C. The news generated considerable ...

Many analysts have interpreted Trump’s protectionist stance, and the United States’ imposition of tariffs, as economically irrational. If the liberal motto was once that “under free trade everybody ...

The Better Outfitting Our Troops or BOOTS Act has a noble-sounding name, but it is the exact opposite in practice. Introduced earlier this year, the proposed legislation would prohibit U.S.

Globalism — the free flow of money, people and goods — has made the world a heck of a lot richer over the past several decades. But it’s always been subject to some threat or other. In recent years, ...