The USA writes itself a victim narrative in which poor little America is bullied and ripped off by China, formerly one of the poorest countries in the world, now looming in America’s rear-view mirror. Will Donald Trump press the big, red button in 2019?
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Anna Chen – 13 November 2018, trade war History repeats itself: Trump’s fantasy trade-deficit is an excuse for carving up China So the west is at it again, carving up the juicy market of 1.4 billion (EDIT 1.386bn in 2017) human beings that is China. I suspect most people have twigged by now that US
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Five stars for Heathcote Williams’ American Porn poetry collection: balancing passion and disgust on a razor’s edge Seems like we are all stuck in a science-fiction writer’s coma dream, so deeply weird have been events of the past year. The culmination was the installation by electoral college (as opposed to popular vote) of our Orange
New Beijing-backed RCEP trade treaty offers hope to emerging markets in Asia Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe has just had a grovelling meeting with President-Elect Donald Trump. My guess is that Abe offered Trump unconditional support in the South China Sea and Pacific. (There are moves to allow Japan to have an army and nuclear
With only one day to go before the US votes for its next president, one question remains: who is the least worst? Think about this. Trump, Putin and now, it appears, China, are contemplating a period summed up in the famous term of the early 20th Century economist Joseph Schumpeter as ‘creative destruction’. Tom Phillips
