Riding the Tigers: American Commercial Diplomacy in Asia

by Jeffrey E. Garten

The meltdown in Asian financial markets and the fierce debate over the U.S. role in a bail-out tend to obscur the huge scale of American exports to the region, currently $200 billion a year. Washington's commercial diplomacy efforts to promote U.S. exports to Asia are equally controversial, having been tarred by the Huang-gate hearings on illegal campaign donations, amid accusations of political favoratism and corporate welfare with Asian dictators...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0876092342
• ISBN13: 9780876092347
• Release Date: June 1998
• Publisher: Council on Foreign Relations Press
• Length: 47 Pages