China should be granted market economy status (Claude Barfield, East Asia Forum)

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/12/11/china-should-be-granted-market-economy-status/

Are US security officials rethinking Huawei’s status? (Claude Barfield, East Asia Forum)

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/11/10/are-us-security-officials-rethinking-huaweis-status/

The TPP: more than a trade agreement (Claude Barfield, East Asia Forum)

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/11/02/the-tpp-more-than-a-trade-agreement/

A WTO challenge to China’s internet censorship is long overdue (Claude Barfield, East Asia Forum)

For the first time this year, the United States Trade Representative’s (USTR) ‘National Trade Estimate Report’ took note of China’s Great Firewall. Granted, it was with this tame statement: ‘China’s filtering of cross-border Internet traffic has posed a significant burden to foreign suppliers’. The report did not indicate what steps, if any, the United States plans to take against China’s heavy-handed and economically damaging censorship regime. But it is high time for the United States, possibly in conjunction with other major trading partners, to test the legality of China’s sweeping internet censorship system

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/05/26/a-wto-challenge-to-chinas-internet-censorship-is-long-overdue/

TPP keeps the internet’s rules liberal (Claude Barfield, East Asia Forum)

There has been a good deal of hype touting the recently concluded Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement as the first ‘21st century’ trade pact. Whether it lives up to this high accolade is currently under debate, both in the United States and among the 11 other TPP member states that still need to pass the agreement through their national legislatures. But in one area — e-commerce — there is no doubt that the negotiators did agree to provisions that strongly advance liberalisation of internet trade flows and enhance commerce and investment through the medium of cyberspace.

http://www.eastasiaforum.org/2016/02/29/tpp-keeps-the-internets-rules-liberal/