How to Ensure U.S. Economic Security
Boxes marked ‘Made in China’ are lined up in NewAir’s warehouse in Cypress, CA. (Jane Ross/Reuters)

How to Ensure U.S. Economic Security

A weekly digest of the latest from CFR on the biggest foreign policy stories of the week.

Getting Economic Security Right

By Matthew Goodman

National security policymakers are understandably worried about economic risks, but they shouldn’t lose sight of other national interests. Read more from the RealEcon initiative

Why the U.S. Election Matters for Europe

By Council of Councils

Roughly two months until election day, four experts from think tanks around the world cite the profound impact that a Donald Trump or Kamala Harris victory would have on European security. Read the expert roundup

A Strengthening U.S.-Philippines Alliance

By Josh Kurlantzick and?Abigail McGowan

Increasingly dangerous standoffs in the South China Sea have raised mounting concern about the prospect of a wider war.?Read the expert brief

Why Biden Wants to Block the Nippon-U.S. Steel Deal

By Noah Berman

U.S. President Joe Biden is reportedly planning to block the Japanese takeover of U.S. Steel. The decision could challenge his administration’s foreign policy aims. Read the brief explainer

Telegram Exemplifies Power Without Responsibility

By Max Boot

The Telegram social media app claims nearly 1 billion users around the world but does next to no content moderation and refuses to cooperate with law enforcement investigations. Read the opinion in the Washington Post

A Wider Middle East War

On this episode of The President’s Inbox podcast, CFR Senior Fellow for Middle East and Africa Studies Steven Cook joins James M. Lindsay to discuss the potential for a wider war in the Middle East as Iran vows to retaliate against Israel for the killing of a top Hamas official in Tehran. Listen to the episode

Reimagining European Security

By Thomas Graham

Disrupted by Russia’s 2022 invasion of Ukraine, the European security project needs to be rethought, focusing on the long-term goal of managing geopolitical competition. Read the report

China’s Double Threat to Europe

By Dr. Liana Fix and Heidi Crebo-Rediker

With its twin strategies of decisive support for Russia and rapid conquest of Europe’s car market, China now poses a greater threat to Europe’s prosperity and security than at any previous point. Read more from Foreign Affairs Magazine

Ruling Parties Gear Up for Coming Elections in Africa

By Michelle Gavin

Following election losses and protests around the continent this year, the idea that dominant parties could fall, and that popular discontent could leave the most powerful political elites scrambling to save their jobs, has been weighing on leaders in Africa. Read more on Africa in Transition

Can the Taiwan People’s Party Survive?

By David Sacks

The corruption investigation into Ko Wen-je, the founder and leader of the Taiwan People’s Party and a candidate in Taiwan’s most recent presidential election, has sent shockwaves through Taiwan, raising questions about the party’s future. Read more on Asia Unbound


CFR Events

C. Peter McColough Series on International Economics With John C. Williams

John C. Williams of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York discussed monetary policy and the economic outlook for the year ahead. Watch the discussion

A Conversation With Michael Froman

CFR President Mike Froman discussed his career, priorities for the Council, and the current events affecting U.S. foreign policy, including the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Watch the discussion

Jacob Haigh

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2 个月

It's important to balance protectionist responses to economic security with the benefits of a globalized interconnected economy. Even from a security standpoint, economic ties offer avenues for soft power, and deterrents to hostility. Overly protectionist policies risk weakening critical ties with allies, and atrophying economic arteries that could otherwise be used to apply deterrent or coercive pressure.

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Eric Hill

An Engineer Focused on Sustainable and Responsible Growth

2 个月

Global trade cannot be complete in an era of scarcity, regional threats and nation states, protectionism is warranted. Ideally every nation needs to be able to supply its own food, water and core industry to a large degree or its subject to foreign trade intervention and/or regional breakdowns where they import from. For the U.S, the rare nation that can and has produced the vast majority of its domestic goods in the past, the lure of compromise on security for foreign trade is a benefit for private interests that comes at the cost of the general public. As such, the government should regulate it extensively, its gotten entirely out of hand, the pandemic was a lesson in this Trade should only be conducted for mutual benefit of peoples, not individuals. You don't want to pay high labor costs to make life saving medicine? Okay build your factory in another country but the price of said medicine shouldn't be exorbitant. What is the real trade? The trade is cost per unit vs domestic security and circulation. If the unit cost doesn't come down, its not in the public benefit, its a net risk for the public. This was the lie of global markets, the bigger pie, the lower cost, specialization, it cannot endure.

Toshiki KUMAGAI

President, Asian College of Community Development and Hospitality Studies; Professor Emeritus (Ex-VP - Int’l), Kyoto University of Foreign Studies; Ex-Senior U.S. Foreign Service National (FSN) - Japan

2 个月

同意します。

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2 个月

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2 个月

I read this in full and it feels more like a neo-con Democrat newsletter than anything else. Think I will bow out now.

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