US Fails Miserably in Efforts to Isolate Russia
Victoria Nuland is a loser as even the newspaper of record admits defeat.
Read more...Victoria Nuland is a loser as even the newspaper of record admits defeat.
Read more...The US is pressing an (over) eager Japan to develop offensive capabilities, with an eye to a conflict with China.
Read more...Japan and the Netherlands are joining the US in tightening controls over the export of advanced chip-making machinery to China.
Read more...Washington works to enlist Tokyo and Seoul in its efforts to contain Beijing, but will Japan and South Korea end up suffering more than China?
Read more...The “collective West” is remarkably attached to sanctions that have hurt them more than Russia. The oil price cap is next in this pattern.
Read more...Some serious whinging from Japan about the supposedly new and improved oil and gas sanctions on Russia.
Read more...If China intends to cov the West, it needs to pick things it could do that would incur real damage. Selling Treasuries it not that.
Read more...Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Shinzo Abe’s death is a reminder of how the US helped paper over WWII era crimes of the Japanese Empire.
Read more...It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.
Read more...NYC’s notorious cesspool masquearading as a jail, Rikers Island, has failed to implement mandated reforms, which may result in a Fed takeover
Read more...The U.S. botches its India diplomacy as it fails to comprehend Delhi’s understanding of the new realities of the emerging multipolar world.
Read more...The IEA last week proposed 10-point plan to curb oil use. Alas, it’s unlikely that current U.S. regulators and political leaders. will provide any more than lip service to these and other long overdue measures.
Read more...The boundaries between politics and commerce aren’t as clear in Japan and China as in the West, and we may not be better off for that.
Read more...Omicron updates along with some of the considerable noise.
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