China’s Rare Earths Weapon Could Kill Europe’s Auto Industry
More on US and European car-makers’ vulnerability to China’s new rare earths licensing regime.
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Michael Hudson: Trump’s Contradiction-Riddled Strategy to Preserve US Hegemony
Trump does have a plan to shore up America”s flagging power, even if, when you put the pieces together, it does not make much sense.
Read more...Like China, a Mexico Tariffs Own Goal: US Dependence on Mexico Energy Trade Means “Those Tariffs Never Stood a Chance”?
More evidence of Trump cluelessness in his Mexico and China tariffs bobs and weaves.
Read more...Rajiv Sethi: American Leadership in Higher Education Is Being Lost for Good, to China’s Benefit
Why you can stick a fork in US higher education excellence.
Read more...Alongside China’s, Which Social Credit Systems Are Developing?
China’s state-run social credit system has elicitied global criticism for years, but other versions are spreading in the rest of the world.
Read more...Trump’s Liquidation of U.S Global Leadership
Some geopolitical aspects of how Trump’s mazimixation of his personal power comes at the expense of the US
Read more...Joker Geoeconomics and the Fight Over Global Ports
What are China’s options to prevent BlackRock-MSC/US takeover of 43 global ports? And how far will the US go to muscle its way out of its profitability crisis?
Read more...China Is on Its Way to Becoming World’s First ‘Electrostate’
The implications of China leading in the proportion of electricity its energy use and pursuing even more electrification.
Read more...Shanghai’s Liberation Daily Interviewed Michael Hudson: The Trade Conflict Has Brought Irreversible Impacts, Trump Is Compromising Himself
A look at the US’s flagging economic model and how the Trump trade war will affect the US, China, and other counties.
Read more...Japan to Arm Wrestle the US About Tariffs….and What About Restrictions on Chinese Investments and Products?
Japan wanted an early US trade deal. It is discovering that its sort-of special relationship with the US is not getting it any breaks.
Read more...Despite China’s Warning, US Has Opened New Front in Trade War with Investment Restrictions in UK Pact
Trump made a big retreat on his China tariffs. But a second gambit, investment restrictions to isolate China, is already giving China fits.
Read more...Martin Wolf’s “The old global economic order is dead”
A look at two factoids in a new Martin Wolf article illustrate why our economic mess seems intractable….and not just for the feckless US.
Read more...A US or UK Hidden Hand? “How an India-Pakistan War Could Derail Central Asia’s Future”
Pakistan’s Prime Minister Asif contends that acting as a US operative helped prime the current India-Pakistan conflict. Does he have a point?
Read more...Roaring Tariffs: The Global Impact of the 2025 US Trade War
A model of the economic effects of various tariffs war scenarios shows even the likley “least bad” outcome is stilll pretty bad.
Read more...Trump’s Neverending Tariffs War? Proposes 100% Tariffs on Foreign Movies; De Minimus Exclusion Ends, Hurting the Poor; Financial Times on Tariff Evasion, Official and Via Trans-Shipment
A battlefield update on Trump’s tariff wars.
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