Soros just designated China’s AI and surveillance ambitions as the #1 enemy to “open societies”. Recall he’s already gone after Facebook and other US tech titans.
Read more...Suddenly weakening demand in China has now transcended company-specific issues.
Read more...Jomo Kwame Sundaram makes the case against the Comprehensive and Progressive Trans-Pacific Partnership, a free trade agreement that went into effect at the end of 2018, for six of its eleven member countries.
Read more...Why China is fragile and starting to look wobbly.
Read more...Due to Western misperceptions and China’s rising authoritarianism, the current trade war is evolving dangerously into Cold War 2.0.
Read more...Great. Will the new maxim of war be, “He who controls the training set controls the future”?
Read more...Bipartisan failure of securities regulators allows the China Hustle of accounting control fraud to fleece US investors in Chinese companies.
Read more...More on the arrest and planned extradition of Huawei CFO Meng.
Read more...A US criminal case targeting Huawei has thrown a big spanner into US-China relations.
Read more...What the G20 and OPEC meetings mean for the political relations, economies, and people of the world.
Read more...Why the worries about the US budget deficit and China buying Treasuries are overblown.
Read more...Lambert here: Makes our own Civil War look like a blip. However, at least some of the conclusions seem to be borne out for our Civil War, too: Increase in state capacity, for example. By Lixin Colin Xu, Lead Economist, Development Research Group, World Bank, and Li Yang, Postdoc, Paris School of Economics. Originally published […]
Read more...A rare bit of positive news on the global warming front: oil demand topped out in developed economies and emerging economies are increasingly fighting both internal combustion engines and single use plastics.
Read more...China has more of a glass jaw than most economics commentators thought. But how is Trump’s trade war likely to progress?
Read more...The US and China are even more visibly at odds than usual.
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