Educational Program: Navigating Global Trade Flows in the Shadow of COVID-19 and US-China Geopolitical Tensions
Global trade flows have been on a turbulent ride since the shock of COVID-19. As macro-economic activity has proceeded through fits and starts over the past 5 years, patterns of trade have gradually been taking a new shape. US-China geopolitical tensions stand as one of - but not the only - factor re-shaping the globalized trading system and bilateral flows of goods, services, and capital within it. Both Washington and Beijing bring particular objectives and constraints - bound by structural realities, political pressures, and market incentives - to managing their trade relationship and the broader constellation of networks of trade and investment that they influence. During this educational program, two experts, Emily de La Bruyère and Nathan Picarsic, will unpack for international correspondents these perspectives offers leading indicators of where the rhetoric of "deglobalization," "de-risking," and trade competition may head in the months and years ahead. This program is developed by the Association of Foreign Press Correspondents in the United States (AFPC-USA) in partnership with the Hinrich Foundation. The AFPC is solely responsible for the content of this program.
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Experts’ bios
Emily de La Bruyère is a senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (FDD), and co-founder of Horizon Advisory, a strategic consultancy with a focus on China policy. Emily has pioneered novel data collection and analysis tools tailored to Beijing’s strategic and institutional structures. She has extensive Chinese language research and program management experience. She has testified before the Senate Banking Committee and US-China Economic and Security Review Commission. Emily’s work was the first Western analysis to document Beijing’s China Standards 2035 national plan. She is at the cutting edge of US analysis on China’s military-civil fusion strategy and platform geopolitics, as well as their implications for global security and the economic order. She uses primary-source, Chinese-language materials to provide insight on geopolitical, technological, and economic change for decision-makers. Emily is a co-founder of Horizon Advisory, a consulting firm focused on the implications of China’s competitive approach to geopolitics.
Nathan Picarsic is a co-founder of Horizon Advisory, a leading geopolitical and supply chain intelligence provider. His commentaries on strategy, technology, and investment have been published in outlets ranging from Bloomberg to TechCrunch. Nate manages Futura, a fund that invests in early stage industrial innovation, and advises start-ups at Carnegie Mellon’s Project Olympus. He is a Senior Fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies and a Senior Visiting Fellow at the Krach Institute for Tech Diplomacy at Purdue. He holds a BA from Harvard College and has completed executive education programs through Harvard Business School and the Defense Acquisition University.