37th & The World

Ambassador Frank Lavin on Trade with China Under the Biden Administration

February 22, 2021 Georgetown Journal of International Affairs (GJIA) Season 1 Episode 4

On November 23, 2020, Ambassador Frank Lavin sat down with GJIA to discuss prospects under a new presidency for ending the three-year old trade war. The conversation lays out obstacles to a “reset” faced by a president with clearer pro-trade leanings, including Beijing’s entrenched belief in the inevitability of its superior long-term economic trajectory and dismissal of American objections as rooted in spite.

Read an edited transcription of the interview here.

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