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Backdoor Government Decryption Hurts My Business and Yours

Harvard Business

Nowadays, cyberattacks come from a wide range of actors — from individual cybercriminals using ransomware to extort money from your local dentist, to sophisticated foreign states attempting to steal intellectual property. That was in 2001. firms lose $15.4 Fifteen years later, encryption increasingly enables U.S.

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Why the WTO Should Constrain the Power of China’s State-Owned Enterprises

Harvard Business

This means that the Trump administration will have to stop viewing the WTO as a threat to sovereignty and start seeing it as a place to forge alliances to compel China to respect the rules as it promised to do when it joined the WTO in 2001.

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Where Trump Does (and Doesn’t) Have Leverage with China

Harvard Business

Recent research suggests that Chinese imports, over the 12 years after the country’s WTO entry in 2001, took in excess of an estimated two million jobs out of U.S. Trump should focus on this Chinese gaming of market access and intellectual property, especially in those industries where American multinationals are world leaders.

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America’s Uneasy History with Free Trade

Harvard Business

President Bush also pursued agreement in the WTO’s multilateral Doha Round, launched in 2001, but divisions between advanced and developing nations led to a stalemate. Changes in political support for free trade. From the 1930s through the 1980s, the basic U.S. political fault line on trade was economic. -led