Global Intelligence Desk
Amid a shifting global playing field, the Global Intelligence Desk delivers timely and incisive analysis through calls, briefs, and in-person gatherings to help businesses navigate risks and opportunities.
What is happening to the rules-based global order? Who are the emerging players in a less predictable marketplace? How should businesses navigate a world no longer bound by the certainties of the post-Cold War era?
These are the questions of our time. As a shifting global playing field creates new risks—and new opportunities—the U.S. Chamber of Commerce has launched the Global Intelligence Desk to provide timely and incisive analysis delivered through calls, briefs, and in-person gatherings.
The Call is a series of live video conversations featuring expert guests, including subject matter experts at the Chamber. Live, interactive access is a benefit to the Chamber’s members. Information on membership is available here. Replays of each episode are available the next day for wider viewing.
News and Insights
Coverage and analysis of critical geopolitical topics from Jay Sapsford, the Global Intelligence Desk’s Executive Editor and The Call host, as well as news and insights from our partners at RANE Network.
Leadership
Latest Content
- China enters 2026 targeting 5% growth. But behind the numbers, it grapples with weak domestic demand, a property hangover, high local government debt, and growing external pressure on trade and technology. Beijing’s answer is increasingly framed around expanding "new economy" investments in advanced manufacturing and clean tech. Will that be enough for China to achieve its growth targets?Europe enters 2026 under mounting geopolitical, economic, and political pressures, raising urgent questions about its path to renewal—explored here with Marjorie Chorlins, the U.S. Chamber’s Senior Vice President for Europe.In a fast‑shifting 2026 landscape shaped by the midterms, Neil Bradley breaks down what businesses can expect from Washington—from trade and investment policy to U.S. leadership, AI regulation, and key domestic debates that will influence competitiveness in the year ahead.In our year-end episode of The Call, Jay Sapsford talks with Beata Javorcik, Chief Economist at the European Bank for Reconstruction & Development and lead author of its landmark report Brave Old World, about how governments can navigate demographic decline, shrinking workforces, and the limits of technology.Amid the rise of China, uncertainties remain over how best to pursue our immediate economic goals while also pursing less tangible, long-term strategic interests. Jay Sapsford asks Ambassador Rahm Emanuel: As alliances evolve, can Washington and its friends effectively deter Beijing?Traffic at America’s ports is one of the most underappreciated indicators of economic prospects - and at the Port of Los Angeles, the nation’s largest port, traffic is slowing.Seven years after Capital Economics warned of a China slowdown, we revisit that thesis with Chief Asia Economist Mark Williams amid today’s sluggish growth and rising U.S.-China tensions.At a time when the world was already undergoing significant changes, Adam Posen joins the Call to raise significant questions about the role of the U.S. in the years ahead: What will be the U.S. role in a chaotic new era?This week’s guest, former Defense Under-Secretary Michèle Flournoy, argues that America’s ability to deter and win wars now depends less on troop strength and more on its capacity to out-innovate its rivals through cutting-edge research, skilled talent, and fast investment.With the U.S. and Chinese leaders meeting on the sidelines of APEC, the stakes are high: renewed tariff threats, tighter tech and minerals controls, allies under pressure to align, and a security backdrop that refuses to stay quiet. Supply chains, investment plans, and boardroom risk maps all hang in the balance.
