Following decades of US government-led initiatives to open data and to encourage data flows, it came as a shock to many US trade partners when the Biden administration announced in October 2023 that it would withdraw its support for proposals to encourage cross-border free flow of data being discussed at the World Trade Organization.
If you want to understand economic war, you need to begin by understanding the difference between economic statecraft and economic war.
Raquel Garbers, CIGI visiting executive from the Department of National Defence, outlines the clear distinction between the United States’ actions to reset its trade relationship with its allies and the economic warfare conducted by China while highlighting the dangers of conflating the two.
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