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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
Jacob L. Shapiro –Geopolitical Futures China’s complacency is a sign of confidence, not weakness After three months, the Hong Kong extradition protests of 2019 have become quotidian. The Monday morning question for China-watchers has not been whether a protest took… Continue Reading
By Jon Henley and Guardian correspondents As the Brexit deadline looms, Europe remains wary of the poker player behind the clown mask He is clever, cultivated, charming; witty, self-deprecating, wildly entertaining and oh so terribly British. Also dissembling, dishonest, dark,… Continue Reading
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. It can be recalled that the United States… Continue Reading
By Robert Fisk* – The Independent Arab dictators have much in common with the British prime minister. They too know how to deal with ‘doomsters and gloomsters’ “I’ve worked out that in the past week, I’ve been told to wait “only… Continue Reading
By Adam Tooze* NEW YORK, Aug 1 2019 (IPS) – In the grand European political reshuffle of 2019, it turned out that Christine Lagarde was the answer to the conundrum of who should replace Mario Draghi at the European Central… Continue Reading
Danny Holt* – Newsweek Last Monday, the Trump administration announced a new expedited removal policy, expanding the Department of Homeland Security’s power to deport more immigrants with increased speed. This news comes on the heels of a series of raids… Continue Reading
By Anis Chowdhury and Jomo Kwame Sundaram (*) SYDNEY and KUALA LUMPUR, Jul 30 2019 (IPS) – July 2019 saw the 75th anniversary of the historic conference of 44 countries held at the Bretton Woods (BW) resort in New Hampshire… Continue Reading
By Daniel Aldana Cohen* – The Nation The climate crisis is converging with a housing crisis. We need to tackle both with a Green New Deal for Housing. The heat is on. A heat wave is breaking records across much… Continue Reading
Editorial If the UK’s new prime minister thinks he can sup with populists like Nigel Farage and Donald Trump over Brexit, he risks ending up as dessert The Conservative party has finally got a leader it deserves. As the UK’s… Continue Reading
By Guillermo Sullings* – Pressenza, International Press Agency We often read statistics illustrating the accelerated concentration of wealth in the world; a few billionaires accumulate more wealth than the poorest half of the planet, and the richest 1% of the… Continue Reading
By Fernando Ayala* – Wall Street International Magazine United States, China and Russia in a dispute for world supremacy The rivalry between the great powers is best appreciated by examining them based on their respective power and in relation to… Continue Reading
By Ambrose Evans-Pritchard* – The Telegraph If the Europeans persist in treating the International Monetary Fund as a hereditary fiefdom, they will destroy the institution. Global credibility will wither away. Asians will take matters into their own hands. They will create… Continue Reading
By Fernando Reyes Matta* There are three fears that cross citizenship in different parts of the world: a) the fear of how work life will be changed by automation and robotics; b) the fear of stress in urban life, if the… Continue Reading
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.… Continue Reading
Robert Reich* – The Guardian The president is the puppet master so Americans of all persuasions must look behind him, to where the real danger lies I keep hearing that the Democratic party has moved “left” and that Democratic candidates… Continue Reading
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… Continue Reading
