2026 Issue 13

Another round of WTO negotiations ends in failure and Professor Eswar Prasad observes that geopolitics and the tensions between the United States and the PRC have largely derailed globalization.

As the Sino-Russian relationship gets stronger across military, diplomatic, technology, and economic fronts, Hong Kong’s largest and oldest teachers’ union disbands as Communist rule tightens on the city.

The U.S. Ambassador to Canada warns Ottawa that Chinese electric vehicles imported to Canada will not be allowed in the United States after Prime Minister Carney abandoned the agreement his government made with the Biden Administration.

A federal judge ruled that Stanford University’s Hoover Institution could keep the diaries and records of Mao Zedong’s personal secretary, rejecting a case by the PRC Government that wanted the records back and would likely have destroyed them.