How the West can adapt to a rising Asia | Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani is one person who has helped me to understand the US-China relationship.
How the West can adapt to a rising Asia | Kishore Mahbubani
Kishore Mahbubani is one person who has helped me to understand the US-China relationship.
The U.S. is trying to smash open solar-panel trade barriers in India, even while trying to protect American panel manufacturers from imports.
— Read on grist.org/news/u-s-tries-to-have-it-both-ways-with-solar-trade-policy/
Top Overnight News from Bloomberg
The House this week begins the solemn task of deciding whether to bring impeachment articles against President Donald Trump, faced with a sharply divided American public, a compressed timetable and doubts about how and if the White House will participate
Peter Navarro, the self-described “bad cop” of Trump administration economic policy, wants to shake up the World Trade Organization
Chancellor Angela Merkel’s government was thrown into crisis after Germany’s Social Democrats redrew the country’s political map by electing a new leadership seen as a threat to the survival of their coalition; Chancellor Angela Merkel’s party told the new leadership that there will be no renegotiation of the terms of their alliance
The Labour Party gained on the ruling Conservatives in four of five polls with two weeks until the U.K. election, with one of them signaling a possible hung parliament
First it was India and South Korea. Now Japan and New Zealand are joining Asia Pacific’s fiscal stimulus bandwagon, raising concerns for bond investors who will be asked to fund the attempt to re-ignite growth
For years, OPEC ignored the rise of the U.S. shale industry and came to regret its mistake. Now, the group is making another bold gamble on America’s oil revolution: that its golden age is over
— Read on www.zerohedge.com/markets/futures-fade-china-pmi-euphoria-after-trump-restarts-trade-war-brazil-argentina
Nice! Bankrupt America! 😡
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In an unrelated case before the WTO that dates back to the Obama era and has nothing to do with the US-China trade beef, Beijing is seeking $2.4 billion in retaliatory sanctions against the US for non-compliance with a WTO ruling, Reuters reports.
— Read on www.zerohedge.com/markets/beijing-demands-24bn-sanctions-against-us-over-obama-era-wto-complaint