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More of Trump’s “Art of the Deal” on display in Osaka

Osaka's G20 summit was the setting of yet another display of Trump's two-steps-backward-one-step-forward "Art of the Deal" tactics... After branding…

5 years ago

China re-organizes its overseas “magic weapon”

From soft to sharp power... 80 years after Mao's original formulation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China's…

5 years ago

Great Power Politics: why China cannot rise peacefully

Been re-listening to a 2012 conference by Prof. John Mearsheimer, of University of Chicago, on why China cannot rise peacefully.…

5 years ago

Why this time was different for Hong Kong

Hong Kong strong... Unlike the 2014 Occupy movement, this time around most interest groups threw their weight behind the demonstrators,…

5 years ago

Fiat-Chrysler withdraws merger offer with Renault

Fiat-Chrysler has withdrawn its offer for a merger with Renault in the face of indecision from Renault's public shareholder. After…

5 years ago

Huawei Marine in Washington’s crosshairs

Huawei Marine Networks' involvement in setting and upgrading undersea cables is Washington's next target... https://on.wsj.com/2F6n4Jc UPDATE (June 3, 2019): Jiangsu-based…

5 years ago

The contradictions of Trump’s decoupling strategy

"There is an inherent and fundamental contradiction in the Trump administration’s China policy. On one hand, decoupling U.S. and Chinese…

5 years ago

Trump to slap 5% tariffs on all Mexican goods

And how exactly is Latin America supposed to be willing to remain a vassal of the US empire, with China…

5 years ago

Fiat-Chrysler proposes Renault… and Nissan to watch

FCA - Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles "proposes a board initially made up of 11 members, with four members each for both FCA…

5 years ago

Modi’s “Make in India” wins landslide victory

Montesquieu's notion of "sweet commerce" is getting shot... in the leg. The old globalization paradigm is being shaken to its…

6 years ago