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Brendan Pearson

Financial Review

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Green steel to China? Tell Twiggy he’s dreamin’

With excess Chinese steel swamping global markets, the competitive pressure for a more emissions-friendly product just isn’t there.

01.08.2025 4

Financial Review

Brendan Pearson

We let China rig the trade system and now we’re paying for it

Beijing’s pervasive and predatory practices have distorted global manufacturing for almost two decades and undermined faith in the multilateral...

16.07.2025 3

Financial Review

Brendan Pearson

Will global leaders practice free trade preached to Trump?

Given the agreement that tariffs are a tax on consumers, why don’t both major political parties pledge to remove them if they prevail at the election?

11.04.2025 3

Financial Review

Brendan Pearson

China really is the biggest trade cheat. The data shows it

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has developed a forensic approach to counting industrial subsidies in all their forms. The...

10.03.2025 10

Financial Review

Brendan Pearson