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February 8, 2025

Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Walking Out: Implications of America's New Trade Policy for Japan" with Michael Beeman

From: Takashi Kiyoizumi (JFIT) <tkiyoizumi@ucsd.edu>  
Date: 2025/01/15

Japan Zoominar @ UC San Diego: "Walking Out: Implications of America's New Trade Policy for Japan"  with Michael Beeman
 
Wed, Jan. 22, 2025 9:00-10:00 am JST (Tue, Jan. 21, 2025 4:00-5:00 pm Pacific)
From tariff wars to torn-up trade agreements, America's recent and dramatic turn away from support for freer, rules-based trade has undermined and upended the trading system that America championed since the end of the Second World War. Triggering new tensions between America and trading partners along the way, America's sharp political divisions at home have given rise to zero-sum beliefs about the kind of trade America seeks with the world and the rules for trade that it seeks for itself. America's new posture on everything from trade and investment to industrial policy and economic security are seismic in their implications -- trends that will further accelerate during the second Trump administration.

 

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Michael Beeman served as a senior trade official at the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative for over 16 years, most recently as the assistant U.S. trade representative for Japan, Korea and APEC from 2017 to 2023, during which he led the negotiation for the U.S.-Japan Trade Agreement and the renegotiation of the U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement. From 2023 to 2024, he was a Visiting Scholar and Lecturer at Stanford University. He received his D.Phil. in politics from the University of Oxford in 1998 and is the author of "Walking Out: America's New Trade Policy in the Asia-Pacific and Beyond" (2024) and "Public Policy and Economic Competition in Japan" (2002).
 
Ulrike Schaede is Professor of Japanese Business at UC San Diego's School of Global Policy and Strategy (GPS) and the director of the Japan Forum for Innovation and Technology (JFIT). Her research focuses on Japanese business strategies and management; employment practices and corporate culture; financial markets; manufacturing; and innovation. Her 2020 book, "The Business Reinvention of Japan: How to Make Sense of the New Japan" (Stanford University Press), won the 2021 Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Prize and has been translated into Japanese as 再興 THE KAISHA: 日本のビジ ネス・リインベンション (Nikkei, 2022). Her most recent book, シン日本の経営：悲観バイアスを排す ("Japan Re-emerges"), was published in March 2024 in Japanese. 
 
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