Will Japan and South Korea Learn From US Allies in Europe?
Washington works to enlist Tokyo and Seoul in its efforts to contain Beijing, but will Japan and South Korea end up suffering more than China?
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Russian Oil Price Cap Will Not Apply To Resold Cargoes
The “collective West” is remarkably attached to sanctions that have hurt them more than Russia. The oil price cap is next in this pattern.
Read more...“Nikkei-Owned Financial Times Begins to Crack on Sanctions”
Some serious whinging from Japan about the supposedly new and improved oil and gas sanctions on Russia.
Read more...Memo to China: You Look Silly When You Threaten to Dump Treasuries
If China intends to cov the West, it needs to pick things it could do that would incur real damage. Selling Treasuries it not that.
Read more...Reject CPTPP, Stay Out of New Cold War
Aiee, the TPP is back as the CPTPP. Same bad features but no US market access. What’s not to like?
Read more...Shinzo Abe and the Legacy of Japanese Militarism
Shinzo Abe’s death is a reminder of how the US helped paper over WWII era crimes of the Japanese Empire.
Read more...The Coming Sanctions-Induced Economic Tsunami?
It does not take much in the way of prognostication skills to anticipate that things can get way way worse on the economic front.
Read more...Court Should Consider Taking Over Dept. of Correction, Warns Manhattan U.S. Attorney
NYC’s notorious cesspool masquearading as a jail, Rikers Island, has failed to implement mandated reforms, which may result in a Fed takeover
Read more...India: Pursuing its National Interest in the Multipolar World
The U.S. botches its India diplomacy as it fails to comprehend Delhi’s understanding of the new realities of the emerging multipolar world.
Read more...IEA Releases 10-Point Plan to Curb Oil Use: The U.S. Is Unlikely to Follow Much – If Any – of It
The IEA last week proposed 10-point plan to curb oil use. Alas, it’s unlikely that current U.S. regulators and political leaders. will provide any more than lip service to these and other long overdue measures.
Read more...On the Loss of Public Spiritedness in the West and the Impact on Politics
The boundaries between politics and commerce aren’t as clear in Japan and China as in the West, and we may not be better off for that.
Read more...The Campaign to Protect Christmas Profits from Omicron
Omicron updates along with some of the considerable noise.
Read more...The Supply Chain Crisis: How We Got Here
On some of the key management practices and fads that produced dependence on extended and revealed-to-be-fragile supply chains.
Read more...As US Prepares to Ban Ivermectin for Covid-19, More Countries in Asia Begin Using It
The information war takes a dark turn as the corporate media transitions from misinformation and obfuscation to outright lies and fabrication.
Read more...How China Is Offering an Alternative to the IMF
China has been setting up currency swap lines with many countries. But is this an idea that is ahead of its time?
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