A Culture War Against China
January 9, 2021
‘Now we can get back to normal.’ That was the sigh of relief, tinged with at least a frisson of Schadenfreude, with which many international-relations commentators greeted the defeat of President Trum…
Trade War
Confrontation Versus Trade
November 29, 2020
Around the world there is movement to improve levels of trade and to ease formalities in order to make multilateral commerce simpler, less costly and beneficial to all participants. Naturally, individ…
How China Won and US Lost the Trade War
November 23, 2020
Signed and sealed in a video conference ceremony after nearly eight years of grueling negotiations, the world’s largest free trade bloc was forged on November 15 in a show of collective defiance again…
America Versus China
November 13, 2020
On October 27 U.S. Secretary of State Pompeo spoke with Shekhar Gupta, editor-in-chief of India’s news website The Print in an interview that descended into an anti-China diatribe by Pompeo, who was f…
How a Wise Decoupling May Be a Good Thing for Both China and the West
November 11, 2020
Imagine a bird was led to believe that it was a fish. For a while it might get used to living under water, but it wouldn’t take long before it could sense that something was wrong. If the bird didn’t …
US and France on the Brink of Trade War
October 18, 2020
The geopolitics of the cyber world is again influencing the global political and economic order. Now, a new international tension arises around a digital tax, known as the ‘Google tax’. Such tension c…
Why America’s Economic War on China Is Failing
October 11, 2020
President Donald Trump, supported by most of the US establishment, deepened the government’s assault on the Chinese economy. The “trade war” seemed to play well with Trump’s political base, who someho…
China Shouldn’t Have Been Scapegoated During the Presidential Debate
October 4, 2020
American democracy would best be served by focusing more on domestically relevant facts than rhetorical attacks against foreign countries like China. The first presidential debate between Trump and Bi…