By Alexandra Stevenson*, Amie Tsang and Matt Phillips – The New York Times Stocks in the United States swerved up and down on Thursday after China sent conflicting signals about how it would respond to President Trump’s threats of new tariffs and investors took some solace in…
Hanke * – ZeroHedge.com In a purely political move, the Trump administration (read: the U.S. Treasury) has branded China as a currency manipulator.
Asoka Bandarage* – Asia Times The Indian Ocean is one of the most contested regions in the world today. China, the US and India, and also Japan, Saudi Arabia and other rich and powerful states, are struggling for influence over Sri Lanka, which is in the geographic heart of the…
By Paul Krugman* – The New York Times But he doesn’t seem to be learning. If you want to understand the developing trade war with China, the first thing you need to realize is that nothing Donald Trump is doing makes sense. His views on trade are incoherent.
By The Editorial Board (*) – The New York Times The Trump administration continues to escalate its confrontation with China, but there is no clear goal — and no end in sight. President Trump told the American people that confronting China would be quick and painless and would…
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Aug 7 2019 (IPS) – According to their own internal evaluations, both the World Bank (WB) and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have huge credibility deficits due to the policy conditionalities and…
Dominic Rushe* – The Guardian Trade war rhetoric ratchets up as Beijing responds to US claim of being ‘a currency manipulator’ China stepped up the trade war rhetoric on Tuesday, accusing the US of “deliberately destroying international order” with “unilateralism and…
Oscar Ugarteche / Armando Negrete (*) – ALAI U.S.-China trade negotiations will resume the first week of August in Shanghai. So far, neither side has yielded to the conditions of the other.
By Anna Isaac – The Telegraph Britain has failed to make meaningful progress towards a free trade deal with the United States amid “chronic” staffing shortages and communication breakdowns in Whitehall, according to a cache of documents seen by The Telegraph. Details of meetings…
By Paul Krugman – The New York Times The pain is real, but the coercion isn’t. Donald Trump’s declaration that “trade wars are good, and easy to win” will surely go down in the history books as a classic utterance — but not in a good way.
