Simon Evenett News Today

The US-China trade war has intensified with the use of tariffs and subsidies, impacting Europe and China. US Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen has warned of global business risks.

Emerging economies have joined the U.S. and Europe in shielding domestic manufacturers from a rising tide of Chinese imports.

It’s time to raise investment and catch the next productivity wave.

The Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum takes place January 15 – 19, 2024. Adjusting for the cost of climate change is a theme in these 10 programs.

A selection of the best of our coverage of the conflict from the past fortnight.

‘Weaponizing globalization’ is a lot harder than it sounds.

Giant subsidies and rising protectionism are upending decades of free trade. Smaller countries, from the U.K. to Singapore, are getting left behind.

Financial Times: But those companies that stay in Russia risk much bigger losses.

A Kremlin spokesman said Russia would suspend a grain initiative until its demands to get its own agricultural shipments to the world are met.

Russia has suspended a wartime deal designed to move grain from Ukraine to parts of the world where millions are going hungry. The Black Sea Grain Initiative, brokered by the UN and Turkey, has allowed 32.9 million metric tons (36.2 million tons) of food to be exported from Ukraine since…