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 […]
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 […]
Ninety-day truce with China, Trump’s risky NAFTA threat
Trade correspondent L.C. writes: The meeting between Presidents Donald Trump and Xi Jinping at the Group of 20 (G20) meeting in Buenos Aires resulted in the outcome predicted just before the event: the US will delay for 90 days its planned January 1st hike from 10% to 25% of the tariffs currently imposed on $200 […]
What would a great US statesman now do?
Our ally in multiple recent wars, the United Kingdom, is now paralyzed over its attempt to make an acceptable exit from the bureaucracy-encumbered European Union (EU). President Trump applauded this exit (“Brexit”) when it was first proposed, and he applauded the surge of British patriotism that supported it. The US President could now commit a […]
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