Failure of first round of US-China trade talks May 8th, based principally on L.C.’s weekly trade reporting. The good news is that the two sides agreed to continue talking. The bad news is that there was no indication from the May 3rd-4th meeting that any potential landing zones, compromises, or concessions were even discussed. Before […]
Is the US finally going to build a capable space-based missile shield?
May 5, 2018. Congress and the Pentagon may finally start building a space-based missile shield capable of protecting the US from a Chinese or Russian nuclear attack. The present US system may not even be adequate to protect the US and its bases against an attack by North Korea, a minor nuclear missile power. With […]
US postponing tariffs by month but not for TPP leader Japan
Trade correspondent L.C. writes: At the very last moment Monday night, the Trump administration announced that it will be postponing for another month its threatened tariffs against the European Union, the two NAFTA partners of the US (Canada and Mexico), and three other countries (Argentina, Australia, and Brazil). But no tariff relief has been afforded […]
President Trump’s non-Bismarckian, Kaiser Wilhelm II trade strategy
President Trump is continuing his two-front trade war – battling allies and China at the same time — despite the fact that the allies want to work together with the US within the World Trade Organization (WTO) to curb Chinese abuses. The President’s trade policy might be called a non-Bismarckian or “Kaiser Wilhelm II” approach, […]
What to do about China as an existential threat to the US and other free nations?
China within a matter of years will pose an existential military threat to the United States. At 1.34 billion inhabitants, it is four times larger in population than the US with its 311 million. Once a nation industrializes, a greater population means greater wealth and power rather than just too many hungry mouths to feed. […]
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