The Inevitable Financial Crisis
We’re again in the Wile E Coyote phase of a financial crisis, but this time, the real economy problems are far worse than in 2008.
Read more...Category Archives: China
Satyajit Das: Emerging Market Crisis Pathologies
Why emerging markets look set to suffer a world of hurt.
Read more...U.S. Senators Propose Secondary Sanctions On Russian Oil
Some US senators are pushing what looks like another sanctions own goal…..assuming it gets done.
Read more...Biden Again Indicates that US Will Defend Taiwan ‘Militarily’ – Does This Constitute a Change in Policy?
A look at how the US likes to present its role in the escalating conflict over Taiwan.
Read more...Michael Hudson on Student Debt Relief, Inflation, Ukraine Disaster Capitalism, Petrodollar Challenge
Michael Hudson gives a newswap with Ben Norton: student debt forgiveness, inflation, Ukraine, dollar rows, and the death of the Queen
Read more...NATO, Russia, Energy Put Balkans on Edge
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Read more...China as a Developmental State: Indigenous Innovation and Global Competition
China chose a successful technological development path, in contrast to the corporate financialization model in the United States.
Read more...More US Eyepoking of China with New Congresscritter Visit to Taiwan; What Will China Do Next?
The US is still escalanting with China over Taiwan. And China most assuredly is keeping score.
Read more...China And Saudi Arabia Intensify Energy Cooperation With Critical Deal
How China rescued bin Salman and leveraged that relationship into a deal that advances China’s aim of making the kingdom a client state.
Read more...The Future of Copper and the Future of Bougainville
By John McGregor, a translator and political violence researcher The mass transition to renewable energy will require a fundamental redesign of much of our technology and the infrastructure that supports it. Copper will be required in far greater quantities than it is currently. A July 2022 analysis by S&P Global has identified that there will […]
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...Why Give a Damn About Pelosi? How About the Nuclear Strike We Would Have Made on China Over Formosa?
In 1958, the US considered a nuclear strike against China if China’s planned conquest of Formosa went well.
Read more...Endgame Taiwan? US Plans Further China Eyepoking with Planned Military Transit of the Taiwan Strait
China and the US are making threat displays over Taiwan. Lovely.
Read more...Michael Hudson: American Diplomacy as a Tragic Drama
American policies have become astonishingly obvious about not simply putting the US first, but also exploiting supposed partners to do so.
Read more...Xi and Biden Talk Past Each Other in Over 2 Hour Phone Call
The Xi-Biden call confirmed that despite keeping communications lines open, the two superpowers are at an impasse.
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