Trade correspondent L.C. reports: The Trump Administration made it clear on February 7th that the summit between President Trump and President Xi Jinping expected later this month will not take place, at least not while the US President is in Asia for his February 27-28 meeting with Kim Jong Un. The news took most observers […]
Two Euro countries favor China’s Huawei over Western security
Two countries in Europe and the European Union (EU) — Germany and Italy — have agreed to build their telecommunications infrastructure around Huawei equipment. This gear is ultimately controlled by the intelligence and military services of mainland China’s Communist dictatorship. The company is already notorious in the West for its industrial spying, lying, and violation […]
Will China implement structural reforms or just increase US imports?
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: Chinese Vice Premier Liu He came to Washington on January 30-31 and met with President Trump the second day. According to US sources and the public comments of US officials, no specific agreements were reached and the two sides remain far apart on the US’s structural issues of key concern: forced […]
WTO members launch E-commerce talks
Trade correspondent L.C. reports: The World Trade Organization (WTO) has been battered with troubles in the past two years, but it just had a rare taste of success. Fifty WTO members – nearly half its membership –agreed to launch talks for a plurilateral agreement on e-commerce/digital trade. The agreement came at a January 25 meeting of trade ministers […]
The five seapower states that created our modern commercial republics
[Editor’s note: The review which follows provides important background material to the rise of modern commercial republics and their navies. We will be writing more on the US Navy, Merchant Marine, and Coast Guard in future issues.] Andrew Lambert’s Seapower States: Maritime Culture, Continental Empires and the Conflict that Made the Modern World (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2018), 424 pages, […]
