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The Pharma Choke Point

Executive Summary U.S. dependence on China for essential medicines is structural—deeper, broader, and more consequential than conventional market analyses suggest. That dependence began with generic medicines and their ingredients but is now growing...

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The Age of Economic Warfare

Economic warfare has gone global, and the post-1990s economic order, built for an age of efficiency rather than rivalry, is fragmenting. Three futures are possible: managed globalization, competing blocs, or pure transactionalism.

By Edward Fishman

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President Donald Trump walks out to speak in the Rose Garden at the White House on April 02, 2025, Washington, DC. Jabin Botsford/Washington Post/Getty Images
Image of President Trump about to walk onto the Rose Garden.
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A Year After ‘Liberation Day,’ Experts Review the Costs of Trump’s Tariffs

Five CFR experts weigh in on the effects of Trump’s Liberation Day on American consumers, businesses, and credibility, and the uncertainty that lays ahead for the global economy and supply chains.

By Inu Manak, Edward Alden, Benn Steil, Michael Werz and Allison J. Smith

A worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil field, as the country cuts nearly 1.5 million barrels per day of output amid halted exports following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in Basra, Iraq, on March 4, 2026. 
A worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil field, as the country cuts nearly 1.5 million barrels per day of output amid halted exports following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in Basra, Iraq, on March 4, 2026. Essam Al-Sudani/Reuters
A worker operates valves at the Rumaila oil field, as the country cuts nearly 1.5 million barrels per day of output amid halted exports following the closure of the Strait of Hormuz, in Basra, Iraq, on March 4, 2026. 
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How the Iran War Ignited a Geoeconomic Firestorm

Six CFR fellows assess the geoeconomic fallout of the war in Iran, and they analyze the challenges that the United States and the world will have to navigate as the conflict enters its third week.

By Edward Fishman, Brad W. Setser, Michael Werz, Chris McGuire, Roger W. Ferguson Jr. and Rebecca Patterson

Critical mineral ores, including copper, graphite, nickel, lithium, and manganese, against a black background and reflected on a mirrored table.
Critical minerals, such as the copper, graphite, nickel, lithium, and manganese shown here, are crucial for advanced technologies, energy infrastructure, and defense systems.  iStockphoto
Critical mineral ores, including copper, graphite, nickel, lithium, and manganese, against a black background and reflected on a mirrored table.
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Leapfrogging China’s Critical Minerals Dominance

The United States cannot out-mine and out-process China. Instead, it should leapfrog China’s dominance by scaling disruptive innovation, recovery, and recycling.

Core Questions

The Greenberg Center will address four foundational questions about how the United States should navigate a changing geoeconomic landscape.

  • How can we deploy economic power without eroding its foundations?
  • How can we safeguard economic security without undermining growth and prosperity?
  • How can we secure leadership in the technologies and industries that will define the future?
  • How is the global economic order changing—and what kind of order should we seek to build?

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<p>European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen speaks during the signing ceremony of a free trade agreement between the European Union and the South American bloc Mercosur, ending more than 25 years of negotiations, in Asuncion, Paraguay, January 17, 2026.</p>
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Europe Has to Take on China to Save Free Trade

By Shannon K. O'Neil

The US and the European Union have been on a trade agreement tear, competing to define the future global trading system. The EU looks to backstop the more established rules of the road; the US, to muscle bilateral commercial balances in its favor. Each has lessons for the other: The US would do well to […]

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Edward Fishman

Senior Fellow and Director of the Maurice R. Greenberg Center for Geoeconomics

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Thomas J. Bollyky

Bloomberg Chair in Global Health; Senior Fellow for International Economics, Law, and Development; and Director of the Global Health Program

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Alice C. Hill

David M. Rubenstein Senior Fellow for Energy and the Environment

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Inu Manak

Senior Fellow for International Trade

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Benn Steil

Senior Fellow and Director of International Economics

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