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    Alan Beattie

    Senior Trade Writer

    Alan Beattie writes Trade Secrets,  a newsletter on trade and globalisation, every Monday, and an opinion column each Thursday. Based in London, he was previously the FT's international economy editor and world trade editor and has been based in Washington and Brussels. He is the author of False Economy (Penguin, 2009) and Who's In Charge Here? (Penguin, 2012).

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    • Thursday, 25 May, 2023
      Trade SecretsTurkish economy
      Erdoğan’s monetary misadventures are pushing Turkey off course

      The country’s vigorous export-oriented private sector is being threatened by the president’s economic chicanery

    • Monday, 22 May, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      G7 inches towards defence pact against trade coercion Premium content

      America’s allies have some shiny rhetoric but no common legal tool to take on bullying from Beijing

    • Thursday, 18 May, 2023
      Trade SecretsUS foreign policy
      The debt ceiling crisis is distracting Biden from his geopolitical agenda

      Cutting Asia-Pacific trip short to avert domestic catastrophe underlines US president’s foreign policy weaknesses

    • Monday, 15 May, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Europe gets Chinese car factories rather than roads and railways Premium content

      Italy considers quitting the BRI, and how the EU’s new anti-subsidies rules might hit Gulf states’ investments in Europe

    • Thursday, 11 May, 2023
      Trade SecretsGeopolitics
      The G7 struggles to find unity over China’s economic bullying

      This month’s summit will show the rich democracies’ club displays a range of attitudes about how to tackle coercion

    • Monday, 8 May, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Will the EU still have Big Pharma’s back abroad? Premium content

      Brussels’ new rules on compulsory licences at home could influence battles over drug patents overseas

    • Thursday, 4 May, 2023
      Trade SecretsUK universities
      Fish exports are a drop in the ocean next to overseas student fees

      Governments like the UK’s are realising the potential from selling higher education abroad

    • Thursday, 27 April, 2023
      Trade SecretsSemiconductors
      South Korea ponders the high cost of being America’s friend

      Seoul is the latest US ally to encounter the commercial downside of Washington’s security campaigns against China

    • Monday, 24 April, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The coming disputes over trade in electric vehicles Premium content

      China’s dominance of its domestic car market will soon be projected to Europe

    • Thursday, 20 April, 2023
      Trade SecretsBrazil
      The west has too little to offer leaders like Lula

      Chinese trade and investment in Brazil exerts a pull on the country’s geopolitical alignment

    • Thursday, 13 April, 2023
      Trade SecretsEU trade
      The perils of Emmanuel Macron’s strategic assertiveness

      France’s attempts to push through a controversial China investment deal made other EU states wary

    • Monday, 3 April, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Europe’s aversion to anti-coercion Premium content

      Why the EU might shrink from taking on China, and more reasons the UK’s Asia-Pacific trade adventure is a distraction

    • Thursday, 30 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsUS trade
      US Congress shares the blame for its own impotence over trade

      The Biden administration may be shooting from the hip but Capitol Hill is hampered by shortsightedness and special interests

    • Monday, 27 March, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      How China may keep subverting sovereign debt workouts

      Beijing’s reluctance to restructure complicates Sri Lanka’s IMF rescue, plus the EU’s plan to save the Amazon through trade

    • Thursday, 23 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsCommodities
      EU seeks to tone down the imperial style in search for critical minerals

      A trade deal with Chile shows Brussels is trying to appear to be a development partner rather than a neocolonial extractor

    • Monday, 20 March, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The banking crisis and the indispensable dollar Premium content

      With the Federal Reserve backstopping bank liquidity worldwide, the US currency has no effective challenger

    • Thursday, 16 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsAgricultural commodities
      Rich nations are not looking good in the palm-oil dispute

      Indonesia and Malaysia have a point in criticising tariffs that penalise sustainable producers

    • Tuesday, 14 March, 2023
      UK trade
      UK poised to remove import tariffs on Malaysian palm oil

      Britain’s move to cut duties as it seeks entry to CPTPP trade deal sparks concern among green groups

    • Monday, 13 March, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Britain’s bumpy ride to the Asia-Pacific

      UK’s drive to join CPTPP trade deal more about spin and poison pills than substance

    • Thursday, 9 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsChinese trade
      The quick and easy guide for countries resisting Chinese trade coercion

      Australia and Lithuania have shown that finding new export markets is much faster than WTO litigation

    • Monday, 6 March, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      Local borrowing that’s not enough to stop a global debt crisis Premium content

      It’s good that more emerging markets are issuing sovereign bonds in their own currencies, but that can create its own problems

    • Thursday, 2 March, 2023
      Trade SecretsIndian business & finance
      Insular India’s exporters will struggle to fill Chinese shoes

      National trade strategy will make it hard for Indian companies to take full advantage of Beijing’s geopolitical problems

    • Monday, 27 February, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The tricky task of turning the World Bank green Premium content

      New president-presumptive Ajay Banga will lead a fractious organisation in a hazardous political landscape

    • Monday, 13 February, 2023
      Trade Secrets
      The EU’s turn to dodge litigation that stops it going green Premium content

      European governments sued by investors are deserting the Energy Charter Treaty en masse

    • Thursday, 9 February, 2023
      Trade SecretsEU business regulation
      Europe breaks new ground in backing strategic green industries

      Until now, industrial policy in the EU has been restrained by tough competition laws

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