Some Notes on North Korea
Trying to get past the groupthink on the North Korea summit.
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Read more...The US-China conflict over the South China Sea keeps getting hotter.
Read more...The legendary short seller Jim Chanos in a wide-ranging discussion of financial frauds, starting with cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin is the last thing he’d want to own in the event of a catastrophe.
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Read more...Why does China need a military? It could bring the US to its knees in months by withholding shipments of drugs and drug ingredients.
Read more...John Feffer focuses on how the US should allow the Koreans can do the real work, the historic work, the breakthrough work, of knitting the peninsula back together.
Read more...A very useful recap of trade measures taken so far and potential impacts of various threats made by the US, China, and EU.
Read more...Trump again does what he seems to do best, the unexpected, with a Sunday tweet offering a break to sanctioned Chinese electronics maker ZTE. How does this fit into the US-China trade spat?
Read more...China sees a nation-building opportunity in Syria that the US won’t consider.
Read more...Why debt is the great threat to modern China’s development.
Read more...China throws its weight around even more casually than the US does, achieving the difficult task of making Trump look not so bad.
Read more...How Europe raised tariffs on more Chinese imports than Trump has threatened to.
Read more...Michael Hudson discusses Trump’s trade row with China.
Read more...The fast fashion cycle continues to accelerate, as sustainability concerns fall to the wayside. Algorithms are trotted out as a panacea for products that embed an offensive message.
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