The Possible Chinese-US Trade Deal
A review of opinions in the English-speaking blogosphere on the likely content of the US-China deal and the message this agreement sends to the world.
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China Syndrome Redux: New Results on Global Labour Reallocation
What did China gain when the US lost manufacturing jobs?
Read more...China’s Mountain Of Debt Is About To Crumble
A worrying update about China’s corporate debt.
Read more...‘Foxconn Was a Major Con’: Backed by Trump Promises and $4 Billion in Subsidies, Company Admits Factory Jobs Not Coming
Foxconn fleeced Wisconsin. But this was a feature, not a bug.
Read more...Is China’s Debt Crackdown Hitting California’s Commercial Real Estate Bubble?
China gets a cold and California real estate gets pneumonia.
Read more...The Silicon Curtain: The Gloves Come Off With China
An Australian perspective on the West’s growing conflict with China.
Read more...Chinese Growth: A Balancing Act
What is driving the slow-down in Chinese growth and what are the implications for Chinese policymakers and the global economy?
Read more...Soros Warns Against AI Promoted Surveillance and Authoritarianism; Singles Out China’s Existing Tools and Ambitions
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...Wolf Richter: Bottom Suddenly Falls Out of Demand in China in Many Sectors
Suddenly weakening demand in China has now transcended company-specific issues.
Read more...Rethinking Free Trade Agreements in Uncertain Times
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...China Won’t Be Taking Over
Why China is fragile and starting to look wobbly.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: All of Our Bets on China Have Been Wrong
Due to Western misperceptions and China’s rising authoritarianism, the current trade war is evolving dangerously into Cold War 2.0.
Read more...“Alexa, Launch Our Nukes!” Artificial Intelligence and the Future of War
Great. Will the new maxim of war be, “He who controls the training set controls the future”?
Read more...Bill Black: Countering Chinese Accounting Control Fraud and Predation Against U.S. Investors
Bipartisan failure of securities regulators allows the China Hustle of accounting control fraud to fleece US investors in Chinese companies.
Read more...Huawei’s Meng Snagged Due to US Bank Sanctions
More on the arrest and planned extradition of Huawei CFO Meng.
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