Pinkerton Insights Podcast

Each week, we break down international news into our four quadrants of risk and present ways to mitigate those risks. See below for the key issues from this week’s edition: Market and Economic Risks - U.S. President Donald Trump instructed government officials to prepare for the U.S. withdrawal from its free trade agreement with South Korea. - The Trump administration announced that it would the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) policy aimed at protecting immigrants brought illegally into the U.S. as children from deportation. - Sources familiar with the current North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) renegotiation talks in Mexico City reported that the three countries’s negotiators have not been able to agree on most of the key issues. - China is attempting to delay the progress of the Asia-Africa Growth Corridor (AAGC). Developed by India and Japan, the AAGC aims to create new sea corridors linking Asia-Pacific countries with Africa through infrastructure programs. - China has agreed that t