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Showing posts with label US trade war. Show all posts
Showing posts with label US trade war. Show all posts
Thursday, September 5, 2019

Trump’s Mercantilist Mess — Robert J. Barro

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When US President Donald Trump boasted that trade wars are "easy to win" in March 2018, it was convenient to dismiss the remark a...
Tuesday, August 27, 2019

Trade war fractures Asian global value chains Jayant Menon

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Smoot-Hawley redux?  Tariffs and trade wars have knock-on effects. It's impossible to tell that this point where this is all leadin...
Wednesday, August 7, 2019

Zero Hedge — China Fixes Yuan Weaker Than 7 For First Time In Over 11 Years

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For the first time since March 2008, PBOC fixed the yuan weaker than 7 per USD.... Zero Hedge China Fixes Yuan Weaker Than 7 For First T...
Tuesday, August 6, 2019

Trump’s China battle heads into the danger zone — Doug Palmer

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“I think the expectation is that this is going to escalate and get worse rather than coming to a place of agreement or just going away,” sa...
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Sunday, August 4, 2019

Even He Can’t Get Away With It — Greg Wilpert interviews Michael Hudson

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Basically, what he’s trying to do is blame China and blame foreigners for the fact that a lot of Americans are really hurting. They’re not ...
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Friday, July 12, 2019

Zero Hedge — DHL Sounds Alarm On Collapsing World Trade: "Significant Downturn" Underway

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A new quarterly report from logistics company DHL, measured global air and sea cargo trade volumes between March and June, found trade data...
Wednesday, June 26, 2019

The Guts of an Apple Iphone Show Exactly What Trump Gets Wrong About Trade — Jason Dedrick, Greg Linden, Kenneth L. Kraeme

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Crack open an iPhone and you’ll begin to see why President Donald Trump’s ongoing trade war with China doesn’t make sense. On paper, impo...
Saturday, June 22, 2019

Zero Hedge — Publishers Warn Trade War Could Lead To Bible Shortages, "Think Of The Children"

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File under "stuff you can't make up." Zero Hedge Publishers Warn Trade War Could Lead To Bible Shortages, "Think Of Th...
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Sunday, June 2, 2019

David P. Goldman — Washington is wrong about China’s economy

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David P. Goldman puts some numbers on it. Asia Times Washington is wrong about China’s economy David P. Goldman puts some numbers on i...
Saturday, June 1, 2019

Zero Hedge — Trump Declares Trade War On India, Imposes New Tariffs

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No surprise, actually. Same policy as toward China requiring "reform" allowing the US to compete equally in their domestic market...
Friday, February 8, 2019

Andrew Korybko — Huawei is Being Targeted Because of the “Tech Arms Race,” Not the “Trade War”

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Being unable to compete in terms of the technology itself or the pricing thereof, the US is instead forced to resort to so-called “lawfare”...
Tuesday, January 29, 2019

Dean Baker — Trump Is Confused Again, Thinks His Trade War Is Responsible for China's Economic Problems

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Not just Trump but also the US media and pundits. Dean Baker points out that it is false. Moreover, so far China "problem" is th...
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Saturday, January 19, 2019

Margaret Talev and Sheridan Prasso — U.S. Preparing Trump Order to Restrict Chinese Telecoms, Sources Say

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This will likely meet reciprocal response and result in a two-tier IT technology, with the West vassals using the Western system and the G...
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Wednesday, December 26, 2018

Alastair Crooke — It's Not Just A Trade War; And It's Not Just China...

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So, what is going on? Well, the US military complex is ‘for real’ on this. They are gearing-up for the coming military-standoff with China....
Friday, December 21, 2018

Zero Hedge — Stocks Tumble After Navarro Says "Agreement With China Difficult" Unless Beijing Does Full Trade Overhaul

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No deal with China. China has already declared that it is not going to submit to US dominance, which is ultimately regime change and the de...
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018

Bruegel — China’s view of the trade war has changed—and so has its strategy

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China’s recognition of the much more structural features of the U.S.-led trade war has also brought about a drastic change in its response ...
Tuesday, December 11, 2018

Jeffrey D. Sachs — The War on Huawei

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The Trump administration's conflict with China has little to do with US external imbalances, closed Chinese markets, or even China’s al...
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Monday, December 10, 2018

Zero Hedge — This is What The "Trade" War With China Is Really All About

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What is really at the basis of the ongoing civilizational conflict between the US and China, a feud which many say has gradually devolved i...
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Christopher Black — CANADA’S PRIME MINISTER AND FOREIGN MINISTER TAKE CHINA HOSTAGE IN “RULES-BASED ORDER” PLOT

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“It is clear the US is pushing the battle line to our door … We can completely regard the US arrest of Meng Wanzhou as a declaration of war...
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Saturday, December 8, 2018

Dean Baker — Trump and China: Going with Patent Holders Against Workers

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Dean Baker argues that what the president considers a winning deal with China is a good deal for US transnational corporations but a bad ...
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