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...China’s investors are in freakout mode about deflation risks. Can its government turn the fundamentals around?
Read more...Trump’s win highlights popular anger in the US, Japan, and Europe over the economy despite high stock prices and low unemployment
Read more...Nissan, with intensifying cash flow woes and vultures circling, looks like a canary in the coal mine for non-China carmakers.
Read more...A tip of the cap to the geniuses at the US State Department.
Read more...A high level recap of how European powers built out their empires in the century before the Great War.
Read more...Michael Hudson reviews the commitments made at the recent NATO and SCO gatherings and what they mean for changes in the world order.
Read more...The Biden Administration demonstrates it can’t shoot straight with respect to an economic deal meant to counter China.
Read more...A model finds that China closely tracked the trajectory of Japan, South Korea, and Taiwan. Does this claim hold up to close scrutiny?
Read more...Taiwan is only a part of the ongoing conflict between Chana and America plus its Asian allies.
Read more...Musings on the routes for China out of its economic problems and whether China will actually take them.
Read more...A measured but wide-ranging takedown on the movie Oppenheimer and the way it goes way too easy on too many matters nuclear.
Read more...US is bringing back nuclear weapons to South Korea in dangerous East Asia escalation.
Read more...At least when it comes to “great” powers and war these days, one lesson seems clear enough: there simply is nothing great about them, except their power to destroy not just the enemy, but themselves as well.
Read more...Victoria Nuland is a loser as even the newspaper of record admits defeat.
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