Trade war

Singapore reaffirms its role as a global affairs fixer

Singapore has just strengthened its global position as an international affairs and trade intermediary, proxy and fixer. With the signing…

5 years ago

Japan hits back at Korea over WW2 forced labour row

Japan's Ministry of Economy, Trade & Industry (METI) has announced export restrictions on three chip-making components to South Korea, as…

5 years ago

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

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

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

Japanese company’s Korean assets targeted over WW2 row

South Korea keeps waging economic warfare on Japanese competitors by leveraging historical disputes... which were supposedly resolved by the 1965…

5 years ago

Mitsubishi Heavy’s assets seized in South Korea

A timely coincidence... South Korea calls for seizing Mitsubishi Heavy Industries' assets over World War 2 forced labour, just as…

5 years ago

Chine / Etats-Unis: quelles guerres économiques ?

Conférence organisée le 13 novembre 2018 à l'Ecole de Guerre Economique, Paris A l’occasion de la publication de leur livre…

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