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The Return of the Koh Ker Ganesha
with Brad Gordon, Channy Set, and Nguon Chhay Song | Hosted by Deborah Lehr
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CES, Digital Trade, and the Future of Tech Supply Chains
with Ed Brytzwa | Hosted by Jake E. Jennings
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Iran, The Days After: The Succession
By the Basilinna team
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Why China Is Pushing Trade Facilitation Despite a Record Surplus
By Leigh Wedell and Ruihan Huang
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Mexico Now America’s Top Trading Partner as USMCA Review Looms
By Abel Hibert, Senior Fellow
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Nature as National Asset: How the Middle East Is Turning Biodiversity into Economic Opportunity
By Basilinna Deborah Lehr, Chair and CEO.
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China Economic Stimulus Tracker
A comprehensive timeline of announcements and policy actions implemented by the Chinese government to stimulate economic activity.
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From the Middle Kingdom to the Saudi Kingdom: Opportunities Abound
By Yasser Elnaggar, Chair of the Middle East and Africa
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6G, AI & the Future of Connectivity
Hosted by Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade
How does one standard connect billions of phones in every country on Earth — and who decides what comes next? John Giusti steps into the Tholos Circle to break it down.
Tech and Trade Strategic Insights: Beyond the Headlines
By Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade
USMCA Compliance Offers No Shield From the Section 338 Tariffs: Canada and the United States closed out more than a dozen ministerial-level contacts without a deal.
Tech and Trade Strategic Insights: Beyond the Headlines
By Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade
Tariff Risk Is Shifting Across Legal Authorities: Companies should map product-level exposure across Sections 301 and 338, preserve records supporting exclusions, and adjust contracts and sourcing before new duties take effect.
Tech and Trade Strategic Insights: Beyond the Headlines
By Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade
Parallel Tariff Actions Require Flexible Planning; Importers should prepare for multiple duty scenarios by modeling procurement and pricing strategies against overlapping trade actions that could quickly alter landed costs across major sourcing markets.
Tech and Trade Strategic Insights: Beyond the Headlines
By Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade
USMCA Uncertainty Opens Annual Advocacy Window: The shift to annual reviews converts a fixed 16-year renewal cycle into a recurring enforcement process.
Tech and Trade Strategic Insights: Beyond the Headlines
By Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade
AI Access Controls Become a New Compliance Frontier: Companies developing, deploying, or integrating advanced AI systems should prepare for growing government expectations around customer verification, geographic restrictions, user screening, and rapid implementation of access-related directives.
The U.S.-China Relationship in the Months Ahead
By Kendra Schaefer, Senior Fellow
In the wake of the Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing, Basilinna's leading China experts respond to the question: which new stabilizing forces—or points of friction—are most likely to shape the U.S.-China relationship in the months ahead?
The U.S.-China Relationship in the Months Ahead
By Leigh Wedell, President and COO
In the wake of the Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing, Basilinna's leading China experts respond to the question: which new stabilizing forces—or points of friction—are most likely to shape the U.S.-China relationship in the months ahead?
The U.S.-China Relationship in the Months Ahead
By Deborah Lehr, Chair and CEO
In the wake of the Trump-Xi Summit in Beijing, Basilinna's leading China experts respond to the question: which new stabilizing forces—or points of friction—are most likely to shape the U.S.-China relationship in the months ahead?
Tech and Trade Strategic Insights: Beyond the Headlines
By Jake E. Jennings, Chair of Technology and Trade
Bilateral Trade Management Will Increase Country-Specific Risk: The Administration has explicitly abandoned most-favored-nation treatment as U.S. trade policy's governing principle. CEOs should direct review of supply chain and market-access strategies that still assume WTO tariff ceilings as a practical constraint and prepare submissions for the forthcoming U.S.– China Board of Trade for comment process on the $30 billion non-strategic goods basket.