The Wall Street Journal reports Aluminum Makers Ditch Can Business. Used cans are piling up at scrapyards because U.S. aluminum companies are turning fewer of them into new metal, another indication of the economic challenges facing recycling. Arconic Inc. and other aluminum rollers are producing less sheet for beverage cans and more higher-margin, flat-rolled aluminum for…
In his highly acclaimed 2017 book, Destined for War, Harvard professor Graham Allison assessed the likelihood that the United States and China would one day find themselves at war. Comparing the U.S.-Chinese relationship to great-power rivalries all the way back to the Peloponnesian War of the fifth century BC, he concluded that the future risk…
There are so many reasons why sanctions are terrible. Chief among them is that they are immoral. Tariffs are just sanctions applied to a country’s own population. Governments should not be restricting trade between sovereign individuals finding mutual advantage in trading goods and services. But that’s not the world we live in. Governments which are…
The US finally filed charges against Huawei and its detained CFO Meng Wanzhou. The accusations basically boil down to supposedly evading anti-Iranian sanctions and stealing technology from American competitors, zeroing in on some specific cases in order to advance the larger infowar narrative that this Chinese company is unofficially functioning as a strategic arm of…
With the passing of former American President George Herbert Walker Bush we have been reminded of what a sincere and good friend President Bush was of China and the Chinese people, and how after President Nixon’s seminal opening to China, Bush played a pivotal role in cementing the burgeoning diplomatic relationship between the USA and PRC, for…
“China is a sleeping lion,” Napoleon Bonaparte said. “Let her sleep, for when she wakes, she will shake the world.” A new Cold War is upon us, only this time the giant is no longer deep asleep; stirring as it begins to wake. “China is leveraging military modernization, influence operations, and predatory economics to coerce…
