Research: Economics and Trade
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Over the last two decades, Beijing has significantly expanded its political, technological, economic, and security ties with African countries. Guiding this undertaking is Beijing’s view of Africa as a continent well-suited to China’s political governance and economic development model.
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China has become a leader in developing and exporting its smart cities technologies like networked cameras, sensors, and location services—and the rest of the Internet of Things—to collect a wide variety of data in order to control things like traffic, energy usage, and crime, and to augment stat
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The U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission released a staff research report entitled, Cascading Economic Impacts of the COVID-19 Outbreak in China.
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On January 15, 2020, President Donald Trump and China’s Vice Premier Liu He signed a “Phase One” trade agreement. It forms part of an effort to resolve trade tensions that have been ongoing since March 2018, when the Office of the U.S.