From soft to sharp power… 80 years after Mao’s original formulation, the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China’s United Front Work is being…
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Been re-listening to a 2012 conference by Prof. John Mearsheimer, of University of Chicago, on why China cannot rise peacefully. Far from assigning a “good”…
Hong Kong strong… Unlike the 2014 Occupy movement, this time around most interest groups threw their weight behind the demonstrators, fearing Carrie Lam’s Extradition Bill…
Fiat-Chrysler has withdrawn its offer for a merger with Renault in the face of indecision from Renault’s public shareholder. After the inability to anticipate &…
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 Hengtong Optic-Electric Co. Ltd has…
“There is an inherent and fundamental contradiction in the Trump administration’s China policy. On one hand, decoupling U.S. and Chinese technology supply chains may well…
And how exactly is Latin America supposed to be willing to remain a vassal of the US empire, with China knocking at the door ?…
FCA – Fiat-Chrysler Automobiles “proposes a board initially made up of 11 members, with four members each for both FCA and Renault, and one from…
Montesquieu’s notion of “sweet commerce” is getting shot… in the leg. The old globalization paradigm is being shaken to its foundations, with the “conservative wave”…
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 Huawei Technologies a risk to…