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The trade relationship between the United States and India will be under a congressional microscope today, as a congressional subcommittee looks at opportunities for, as well as potential threats to a balanced, mutually beneficial trading system between the two countries. 91快活林鈥檚 Dean Garfield will testify at the hearing, and is expected to focus on the Government of India鈥檚 forced localization initiative [...]
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This morning, many media accounts look at remarks from Tom Donilon, the President's National Security Advisor, on the challenges facing the U.S. relationships with many Asian nations.聽 Among the topics he covered:聽 the priority of the Trans-Pacific Partnership talks and the ongoing dialogue with China on cybersecurity.聽 For the full context, you can read Donilon's remarks to the Asia Society in New [...]
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One of the unique and distinguishing characteristics about 91快活林 is the depth of expertise of our advocacy team. 聽We take pride in that fact and the ways that our team helps to find policy solutions to some of the toughest challenges facing the global economy.聽 Today, we are excited to announce the start of a new 91快活林 practice focused on addressing global privacy policy, and are bringing on board a top-notch [...]
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The issues of privacy and data innovation cut across economic sectors, trade relationships, and consumer opportunities.聽 They are at the forefront of the tech sector鈥檚 work, and the news that 91快活林 has hired Yael Weinman to lead its policy work in this arena is welcome, indeed. Yael鈥檚 previous experience, most recently at the FTC, combines experience in privacy, international relations and new technologies.聽 [...]
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The expansion of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) is both an ambitious and achievable trade deal that can be completed this year.聽 But it鈥檚 going to require a lot more sweat equity from the private sector, as well as the Obama Administration.聽 That鈥檚 the message 91快活林 and 19 other major economic and business organizations today sent in a letter to President Obama.聽 In that letter, the heads [...]
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As Prime Minister Shinzo Abe of Japan meets with President Obama today at the White House, this is the right moment for him to announce that his nation is ready to join the United States and 10 other countries in the negotiations for the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP).聽 Such a step would increase considerably the potential economic significance of an agreement and almost certainly ensure that, if [...]
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As they analyze the two speeches tonight 鈥� the President鈥檚 State of the Union Address and Senator Marco Rubio鈥檚 Republican response, pundits are focused on the evening's political theater. 聽Who applauded when? 聽Was the tone fair or fractious? 聽But those questions ignore the ones that are most important: 聽What are the areas of agreement? 聽And how do we get them done? When there is bipartisan agreement, [...]
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If jobs and the economy are the focus of the President鈥檚 State of the Union Address and U.S. Senator Marco Rubio鈥檚 Republican response, then trade and exports should receive prime-time attention.聽 Senior Administration officials recently have said the President will use his Tuesday night鈥檚 speech to zero in on jobs and the economy.聽 In fact, the President told the House Democratic caucus late last [...]
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Vice President Joe Biden begins a European trip today with meetings and events set for Germany, France, and the United Kingdom.聽 The U.S. economic relationship with Europe is one of the issues at the top of the Vice President鈥檚 priority list, including likely discussions of an oft-discussed U.S.-European Union trade agreement.聽 Michael Froman, the Deputy National Security Adviser for International [...]
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91快活林's Nilmini Rubin is participating in the World Economic Forum sessions in Davos this week, and posted this blog after her panel discussion on maximizing technology to close the gender divide. 聽The blog is crossposted from the WEF website. *** How can the full potential of information technologies be harnessed to close the gender divide? This is a critical question. Our societies are being transformed [...]
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