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CURRENT
AFFAIRS
'Much Hype,
Little Preparation': Why the Trump/Kim Summit Failed
The
collapse of last week’s talks between U.S. President Donald Trump
and North Korean leader Kim
Jong Un "validates Benjamin Franklin’s
axiom that 'by failing to prepare, you are preparing to
fail,'"said Daniel
Russel of the Asia Society Policy Institute. Yet under
the circumstances, Trump’s decision to walk away from the negotiating
table, said Asia 21 Young Leader Jieun
Baek, was "not a bad result."
Check out the
complete reaction to the summit from Russel, Baek, and other
members of the Asia Society family. On Tuesday, Russel provided an
extensive post-mortem to the Trump/Kim meeting in a conversation at
Asia Society in New York with Carol
Giacomo of the New
York Times. Watch
the complete video.
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POLICY
What Can
We Expect From the U.S.-China Trade Negotiations?
Following
the delay of planned U.S. tariffs on an additional $200 billion of
Chinese goods, President
Trump is expected to meet with his Chinese
counterpart Xi
Jinping later this month in order to sign a trade
deal between the two countries. But
according to Wendy
Cutler, Arthur
Kroeber, and other experts, any deal is unlikely to
address the fundamental economic differences between the two
countries. "I think that even if we get a deal on trade in the
next 30 to 60 days, it’ll be narrowly constructed and there will
still be a lot of sources of friction," said Kroeber.
Watch
the complete video of Kroeber and Cutler’s Asia Society
discussion on the U.S.-China economic relationship.
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BUSINESS
China's
Global Automotive Push
The
ambitious plans laid out in the Made in China 2025 initiative include
one area likely to have repercussions in day-to-day life: Beijing's
plans to transform the global automotive industry. In a recent talk
presented by Asia Society Northern California in Santa Clara,
California, Michael
Dunne, CEO of ZoZo Go, explains what a
China-dominated auto industry might look like.
To watch additional talks from Asia Society Northern California’s
daylong symposium on Made in China 2025, check out the Asia Society YouTube
page. Don’t forget to subscribe!
Photo by ianholton/Flickr
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