By GURSHABAD GROVER* – The Indian Express India needs to prove company aids Chinese government, or risk playing into US hands. The Trump administration has not only passed orders restricting the US government and its departments from procuring networking equipment from Chinese…
Sanger* – The New York Times President Trump has finally succeeded in building his wall: not the one he keeps demanding on the southwestern border, but a far more complex barrier meant to block China’s national telecommunications champion, Huawei, from operating in the United…
By Mushahid Hussain * To mark the 40th anniversary of China’s Reform and Opening up Policy, initiated by the great visionary leader Deng Xiaoping in 1978, The New York Times started a series of articles on November 18, 2018, beginning with the title ‘The Land that Failed to…
Posted by Yves Smith – Naked Capitalism This is a useful article as far as it goes, but it may not go far enough for the taste of some readers. The first is that it may miss the real source of the outtrade between the US and China, which is that China appears not to accept a…
By Alan Rappeport and Ana Swanson – The New York Times WASHINGTON — Trade talks between China and the United States ended on Friday without a deal, just hours after President Trump renewed his trade war with China by raising tariffs on $200 billion worth of imports and…
By Jomo Kwame Sundaram and Anis Chowdhury (*) KUALA LUMPUR and SYDNEY, May 7 2019 (IPS) – Over the last four decades, growing concentration of market power in the hands of oligopolies, if not monopolies, has been greatly enabled by ostensibly neo-liberal reforms, worsening…
by Tyler Durden – Zero Hedge (*) Authored by Thierry Meyssan (**) via The Voltaire Network Since the Treaty of Maastricht, all the members of the European Union (including the neutral countries) have placed their defences under the suzerainty of NATO, which is directed…
BAHER KAMAL – Wall Street International Magazine It takes around 7,500 litres of water to make just one single pair of jeans Paris, Milan, New York, Tokyo… These are just some of the world’s most prestigious fashion catwalks.
By Shannon Tiezzi* – The Diplomat Xi’s receptions in Italy and France were markedly different. So were the benefits for the hosts – but not in the way you’d expect.
By Prabhat Patnaik* – The Telegraph, India Donald Trump’s desperate attempt to reduce unemployment in the US is not a matter of mere idiosyncrasy The decision of the American president, Donald Trump, to remove several of India’s exports to the United States of America from the…
