China tariffs won’t make America great again
TOKYO — It’s hard to miss the time-warp dynamic surrounding the US-China trade war as it intensifies in real-time.
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A pivotal moment for Japan’s national defense
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Netanyahu not budging on Biden’s Gaza war plea
US President Joe Biden has mobilized his three top national security officials to pressure Israel’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to accept US plans for ending the Gaza war and future Middle East peace.
Sweden sees Russian threat against big Baltic isle
Gotland has been a popular holiday destination for decades, but this week Swedish Commander-in-chief Mikael Bydén has claimed that Russian president Vladmir Putin “has his eyes” on the Baltic Sea island.
Asia starting to feel like 1997-98 all over again
TOKYO – Last month, former US Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers drew chuckles when he said the Federal Reserve’s next action might be to tighten, not ease, interest rates. Few bond traders are laughing now.
Tesla’s in China – It’s just a question of how long
One day the Tesla experience in China will be a business school case study, though not in a good way.
2 words explain China export ‘surge’: Global South
Contrary to a meme that’s popular among Western policy analysts, there is no Chinese “export surge.” China’s exports to developed markets have stagnated for years, but have doubled to the Global South.
Weighing why China is juicing exports
The big economic news this week was Biden’s very large tariffs on a number of Chinese-made goods. Those tariffs appear to have acted as a catalyst for a bunch of other countries — India, Brazil, Vietnam, Thailand, Mexico, the EU, etc. — to consider their own tariffs on China.