Ghost of Halford John Mackinder, meet your modern followers, the Dictators’ Internationale: Springtime for Strongmen: The world’s authoritarians are on the march — and the West helped pave the way. The year 2018 was springtime for strongmen everywhere. It was the year Xi Jinping put an end to collective leadership in China, made himself president […]
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 […]
Could we have a Wall-DACA compromise, please?
Our comments will be brief, since just about everything that is to be said about ending the government shutdown and securing the US southern border already has been said, in print and on tv. There’s a growing consensus in the Republican party (Newt Gingrich, the National Review, Lindsay Graham, Peggy Noonan) and perhaps beyond) that […]
2018 in trade: China on defensive; TPP-11 underway
The year 2018 is ending with the Trump administration having usefully set China’s hostile trade policy back on its heels but only at considerable cost to US exports – a cost that could been avoided by concerting the anti-China measures with its EU and Japanese allies from the beginning. It is also the 20th anniversary […]
The WTO’s importance to US and UK prosperity
Contrary to the coverage of major media outlets, the United Kingdom (UK) will do better with a “hard Brexit” — leaving the European Union (EU) with no deal — than the centrist solution negotiated by UK Chancellor Theresa May or the “remain” option (staying in the EU) advocated by the British left. The institution that […]
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