Tag: China
China’s Evolving Policy toward Japan in the East China Sea: What’s the Next Move?
Both China and Japan are likely to enhance their physical presence in the East China Sea as each attempts to assert effective control over disputed waters.
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Remarks on the US-China “Trade Deal”
It’s not a trade deal but a means for Trump to back off his tariffs after realizing they harm US consumers instead of China.
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Putin’s Hour Is at Hand
Putin knows that the American empire based as it is on arrogance and lies is failing economically, socially, politically, and militarily.
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Putin Will Restrain Iranian Retaliation
Russia cannot afford for Iran to be in chaos and has no choice but to protect the country, and Iran needs Russia’s support and cannot ignore Putin.
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The Concern for the Secretive Bio-Geopolitics
Biological warfare cannot be excluded from the a possible causes of deadly and costly epidemics.
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US Tariff Wars Penalize Chinese Development and African Futures
In the coming months, some of the worst collateral damage of US tariff wars will occur in sub-Saharan Africa. The adverse impact is likely to be aggravated by US protectionism, which shuns economic integration in Africa.
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What Globalism Did Was to Transfer the US Economy to China
The Fed can pump out more money to drive up financial asset prices, but it doesn’t drive up production because the jobs have been sent abroad.
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Tariff Damage Spreading in US, China within Target in H2 2019
In the second half of 2019, US economic prospects will soften, despite the Fed rate cut, whereas Chinese growth target is likely to prevail. It’s time to prepare for diminished global economic prospects in 2019-20.
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Missing the Point in Mozambique
To be sure, if wrongdoing occurred in Mozambique, it should be punished. But is that a reason to avoid the bigger and more imperative for Mozambique to stand strong on its own?
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New US-Sino Trade Truce: Tougher Talks, More Economic Damage
There is still a chance to salvage the US-China trade talks, but it would require a substantial reassessment of the US stance and objectives.
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The Longer the US Sino-Tariff Wars Go On, the Harder It Will Be to Undo the Damage
Compared to pre-2008 crisis levels, world economic growth has plummeted by half and is at risk of a long-term, hard-to-reverse stagnation.
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The Privatization of US Indo-Pacific Vision: Project 2049, Armitage, Budget Ploys and Taiwan Nexus
In the Shangri-La Summit, the Trump administration introduced an Indo-Pacific strategy aimed largely at benefiting the interests of defense contractors.
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Trump’s Futile Quest for a Renminbi Plaza Accord
China’s monetary policy is not as US media reports claim, and the negative consequences of Trump’s tariffs are about to hit American consumers.
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The Tariff Issue
The tariffs will not bring back jobs, but will reduce the profits of American overseas production exported to the US and raise prices to US consumers.
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Web Censorship in China
Web censorship is a serious problem in China, but there are ways to get around the government’s “Great Firewall of China”.
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Humpty Dumpty Has Had a Great Fall
The Russians, Chinese, Iranians, and North Koreans know that no agreement with America means anything and that Washington speaks only with a forked tongue.
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Climate Gains in the West, Exported Pollution in the Rest
Environmental pollution has not disappeared from the advanced West; it has been exported to more vulnerable economies.
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From US-Sino Talks to New Trade Wars, Weakening Global Prospects
As US-Sino trade talks will give way to next trade wars, new tariff wars will not resolve US deficits but will further impair global economic prospects.
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What Next for the Korean Denuclearization?
Achieving denuclearization on the Korean Peninsula will bring peace and stability not only to the Korean Peninsula, but to all Northeast Asia and beyond.
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Reflections on Putin as a Leader and on the World Situation in Which He Works
Russia’s democracy may be imperfect, but America’s has transformed into plutocracy in which the state’s resources are committed the advancement of empire.
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