The Biden administration’s recent series of acts and executive orders introduced to reshape the global value chain in favor of the U.S. have triggered discontent from China, South Korea, and its European allies. What has motivated such intensive moves by Washington? How will the U.S. attempt affect the global economy at a time of turbulence? And can those policies produce the results that the U.S. is hoping for?

To find out, host Tu Yun is joined by Dr. Digby James Wren, political analyst, Deakin University Visiting IR scholar and Senior Special Advisor to the Royal Academy of Cambodia, Dr. Liu Baocheng, Director of the Center for International Business Ethics, University of International Business and Economics, and Dr. Ilaf Elard, Assistant Professor of Practice in Economics, New York University Shanghai.