Chinese Government Tries to Combat Destructive Deflation. Will It Succeed?
The economic hazard of deflation is already stalking China, to the degree that even Xi is trying to take it on.
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That $20 Dress Direct from China Now Costs $30 After Trump Closed a Tariff Loophole – and the US Will Soon End the ‘De Minimis’ Exemption for the Rest of the World, too
How the Trump tariff attack on low-value shipments from Hong Kong and China (and soon elsewhere) is yet another tax on the poor.
Read more...The Inevitable Militarization of Space?
A high level review of the US efforts to project power in space and the actions/reactions of Russia and China.
Read more...Trump Just Gave a Huge Gift to China’s Economy
The GOP’s huge new tax and spending law will make it even harder for U.S. companies to compete in clean technologies.
Read more...“Ex-CISA Official Warns: We’ve Gutted Cybersecurity—A Gift to Iran, China and Russia”
Cybersecurity expert Dr. David Mussington, explains why the clock is ticking on U.S. vulnerabilities under Trump.
Read more...Gen. Michael Kurilla and the Pivot to Asia
Is diminishing Iran key to the famed pivot to Asia, or a distraction?
Read more...Will Iran Actually Close the Strait of Hormuz? Eni CEO Weighs In
Investors seem unduly chill about the risk that a US attack on Iran will produce a formal or de facto closure of the Strait of Hormuz.
Read more...Satyajit Das: A Fist Full of Dollars
Two recent books seem unduly complacent about the status of the dollar as reserve currency.
Read more...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.
Read more...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?
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