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Arvind Subramanian

America needs to re-negotiate its contract with China

Realities have changed since Washington guided China into the world economy. The US is entitled to update the terms.

Arvind SubramanianDevelopment economist

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Once US President-elect Joe Biden’s administration has made the relatively easy decisions to rejoin the Paris climate agreement, remain in the World Health Organisation, and attempt to reboot the World Trade Organisation, it will confront three key foreign policy issues. In order of importance, they are China, China, and China.

China is too important to ignore, but the challenge it presents defies easy solutions. Bloomberg

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Arvind Subramanian, a former chief economic adviser to the government of India, is a senior fellow at Brown University and a distinguished non-resident fellow at the Center for Global Development.

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