Freelance Journalist, former Wall Street Journal Senior Editor.
bob.davisreports@gmail.com
China is heading toward deflation. Its leaders are blaming a culprit they call “involution”
http://nytimes.com/2025/09/23/opinion/china-economy-deflation-neijuan.htmlView / Download
A conflict over face is tangling up the trade war’s resolution.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2025/05/09/china-us-trade-war-tariffs-trump-xi/?utm_content=gifting&tpcc=gifting_article&gifting_article=Y2hpbmEtdXMtdHJhZGUtd2FyLXRhcmlmZnMtdHJ1bXAteGk=&pid=PNISTeU7nr8y5fvView / Download
Tariffs alone won't cut it
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/03/opinion/trump-trade-war-china.htmlView / Download
Beijing’s experiences are a road map for both opportunities and traps.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2024/04/11/america-industrialpolicy-china-economics-infliation-manufacturing/?tpcc=recirc_latest062921View / Download
After declining during the Trump years and the pandemic, U.S.-China track-two dialogues are back. But can they really help Beijing and Washington stabilize relations?
https://www.thewirechina.com/2024/01/14/back-on-track-two-dialogues-u-s-china/View / Download
As Beijing struggles with a downturn, some experts make a brighter case.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/10/17/china-economy-optimists-property/View / DownloadAn obituary for David Dollar, whose work argued for the benefits of more open trade and investment for poor countries.
https://www.thewirechina.com/2023/10/15/an-economist-at-the-heart-of-u-s-china-engagement/View / Download
The Taipei government is keen to show the island is more than a political football between the U.S. and China.
https://www.thewirechina.com/2023/06/11/what-taiwan-wants-us-to-know-ministry-of-foreign-affairs/View / Download
Blinken vs. Yellen vs. Raimondo says a lot about how Washington and Beijing operate
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2023/04/27/joe-biden-needs-china-fixer-00094064View / Download
The U.S. is frantically searching for a new framework to guide relations with China.
https://www.thewirechina.com/2023/02/12/disengaged-chinese-spy-balloon/View / Download
The pandemic years strained every system of government.
https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/08/china-covid-failure-democracy-autocracy/View / Download
The administration could soon lower tariffs if some power plays in Washington and Beijing take flight.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/05/26/game-theory-predicts-biden-tariffs-china-cia-00035104View / Download
Neither country got the concessions it sought. The real beneficiaries? Vietnam and others who stepped into the breach.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/who-won-the-u-s-china-trade-war-11653059611View / Download
The administration has struggled to take on Beijing without alienating allies at home and abroad.
https://www.politico.com/news/magazine/2022/01/31/biden-china-trade-politics-00003379View / DownloadBeijing leans on an array of levers to extract intellectual property—sometimes coercively.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-china-systematically-pries-technology-from-u-s-companies-1537972066View / DownloadWeighing whether it was a mistake for the U.S. to allow China to join the World Trade Organization.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/when-the-world-opened-the-gates-of-china-1532701482View / Download
‘Get Moving’: how Trump ratcheted up the trade battle With China.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/get-moving-how-trump-ratcheted-up-the-trade-battle-with-china-1528383547View / DownloadU.S. Trade Rep Bob Lighthizer argued for years that negotiations with China was fruitless. The time for confrontation had arrived.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-architect-of-trumps-tough-on-china-policy-1523028038View / DownloadHow Chinese localities stymie efforts to curb industrial overproduction.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/in-china-beijing-fights-losing-battle-to-rein-in-factory-production-1405477804View / DownloadThe article introduced Xi Jinping's key economic aide to a wider audience.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052702304906704579111442566524958View / DownloadHow a leading Chinese banker got sidelined by making commercial decisions rather than following Communist Party wishes.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424127887324196204578297961462046562View / DownloadHow the Communist Party and Chinese government keep control of China's central bank.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10001424052748703410604576217553508821290View / DownloadThis story broke the news that President Clinton had no intention of signing a WTO deal with the visiting Chinese premier.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB923607789295191805View / DownloadFreelance Journalist, former Wall Street Journal Senior Editor.
bob.davisreports@gmail.com