An article of faith that has wisely guided American policy efforts regarding the Korean Peninsula is that the Americans need to remain in lockstep with the South Korean and Japanese governments, just as North Korea remains in sync with China and to some extent Russia. But even before Trump sits down with Kim Jong-un, presuming […]…
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Important Article on China’s New Colonialism
Chinese President Xi Jinping talks a lot about China going global and embracing mutually beneficial trade and investment ties with the world. But in practice, it appears that the Chinese are engaging in a form of colonialism that may be just as bad as, if not worse than, what European colonial powers did. This article […]…
This appears to be overt Russian propaganda on Yahoo
This is marked as “sponsored”‘ on Yahoo News, but it is clearly propaganda from Russia. Everything about it, including the use of the English language, suggests that it did not originate in the United States. It came from Putin’s boys. Yahoo, you have a Facebook problem…
The Critically Flawed Assumptions Behind Trump’s Trade War Against China
Reading everything and listening to everything being said in the Trump camp about tariffs against China, there are two critically flawed assumptions: –One, as articulated by a scholar from the Heritage Foundation (a conservative think tank) on Bloomberg Radio, is that in a trade war, “the Americans might catch a cold but the Chinese will […]…
The @realDonaldTrump Depression?
In a shockingly short period of time, we appear to be swinging from a period of U.S. economic gain to one that is quite possibly a disaster. The United States and China have essentially merged their economies and much of the world’s economy has been predicated on the assumption that the world will make things […]…
