CIGI senior fellow
Paul Blustein is a CIGI senior fellow. An award-winning journalist and author, he has written extensively about international economics, trade and financial crises. Prior to joining CIGI in 2010, Paul was a journalist-in-residence at the Brookings Institution, a staff writer for The Washington Post and the chief economic correspondent for The Wall Street Journal. Paul recently released his fifth book, Laid Low: Inside the Crisis That Overwhelmed Europe and the IMF, and he is currently working on a book about China and the global trading system, which will be published by CIGI in early 2019.
A native of Washington D.C., Paul attended the University of Wisconsin (B.A., history), before heading to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship, graduating with an M.A. in philosophy, politics and economics in 1975. He lives in Kamakura, Japan with his wife, Yoshie Sakai, and is the father of four children.
The United States and China have announced a “phase one” agreement, but problematic Chinese trading practices are barely addressed in any meaningful way, argues Paul Blustein.
During a much-anticipated meeting at the G20 summit in Osaka, the leaders of the US and China agreed to resume negotiations, but immensely complicated issues remain unsolved.
