China Faces Food Shortage?
COVID-19 has rendered food security shaky, in the medium to long term, for many countries. Does China face impending food shortages?
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Robert Pollin: Biden Not Phasing Out Fossil Fuel, Relies on Carbon Capture
Robert Pollin critiques the Biden climate plan for over-relying on unproven carbon capture, investing too little in solar and wind, and treating China as a rival.
Read more...Foreign Direct Investment and Supply Chains in a Risky World
More forecasts on the future of supply chains.
Read more...Major General Dennis Laich: Pentagon Needs a Bad Guy
Retired General Dennis Laich gives some insight into America’s permanent war policy.
Read more...The TPP Is Dead! Long Live the TPP!
Beware! The TPP is still skulking around, rebranded as the CPTPP. As Lambert says, “Kill it with fire”.
Read more...Larry Wilkerson: The Danger of War With China is Real and Insane
Col. Larry Wilkerson explains that China and the U.S. must work together on the climate crisis, but the militaries and security states on both sides make that impossible.
Read more...Why Taiwan Is at the Heart of a Geopolitical Struggle to Produce Cutting-Edge Computer Chips
Why Taiwan could serve as a prototype for a tech proxy war.
Read more...Peter Kuznick: Why Did Americans Accept Barbaric Slaughter of Japanese Civilians?
In 1939, Roosevelt decried targeting civilians as “inhuman barbarism”. In 1945, the U.S. firebombed Japanese cities and dropped nuclear bombs.
Read more...International Trade Has Cost Americans Millions of Jobs. Investing in Communities Might Offset Those Losses
After too many years of “Let them eat training,” a more practical answer to trade-induced job losses.
Read more...So What’s With Those Weird Seed Packets from China?
Oddities in the Chinese seeds story (and yes, people planted them).
Read more...US and China Are Both Raising the Military Stakes in the South China Sea
Is the US engaged in military escalation with China, or are recent moves just high stakes posturing?
Read more...More on Deaths of Despair: New Study Links Early Job Loss to Higher Rates of Overdose Deaths and Suicides
Another look at deaths of despair confirms the danger of job loss and even too-early retirement.
Read more...Ilargi: What? Default? Where? Dollar?
Why the dollar is not losing its privileged status any time soon.
Read more...Even If Joe Biden Wins in a Blowout, the ‘Global Economy’ Is Not Coming Back
Why corporations are past the high water mark for global commerce.
Read more...The Mekong River, Water Wars, and Information Wars
By Lambert Strether of Corrente I’m afraid this is a post where I did indeed catch a bird, just not the one that I intended to catch. I had thought to write a post the Mekong River part of the biosphere (as with coral, mangroves, soil, and algae in Lake Erie) but as it turned […]
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