Wealthy Countries’ Approach to Climate Change Condemns Hundreds of Millions of People to Suffer
Emerging economies want large scale subsidies from their richer brethren to pay for them to move to green energy sources.
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A New Pipeline Could Undo America’s Influence In Asia
A China-Pakistan pipeline deal bodes ill for the US.
Read more...The China Cables: Leaked Classified Chinese Documents Confirm China Running Massive Concentration Camps to “Re-educate” Uighurs
A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
Read more...The Joker to Guy Fawkes: Why Protesters Around the World are Wearing the Same Masks
Discussion of role of masks in global protest, as Hong Kong’s mask ban is ruled unconstitutional by High Court.
Read more...How The iPhone Widens the US Trade Deficit With China: The Case Of The iPhone X
The iPhone case unambiguously demonstrates that conventional trade statistics significantly inflate China’s trade imbalance with the US.
Read more...Marshall Auerback: Will the GOP Become the Party of Blue-Collar Conservatism?
Is the GOP willing to embrace a historical political realignment to become an ally of laborers, or at least manufacturing workers?
Read more...Michael Pettis: MMT Heaven and MMT Hell for Chinese Investment and U.S. Fiscal Spending
There are conditions under which governments can create money—or debt—without fear of inflation or excessive debt burdens. There are other conditions under which debt or money creation can lead to inflation and balance sheet problems.
Read more...Trump’s Latest Trade War Move Sends Oil Tanking
Oil markets see Trump’s continuing China trade threats as a downer.
Read more...Wolf Richter: Treasury’s Weak Denial Acts as Confirmation: US Weighs Crackdown on Capital Flows to Chinese Companies, Stocks & Bonds, Listed in the US or China
Stocks of Chinese companies listed in the US have turned into a fiasco.
Read more...Trump May Get Much of the World’s Manufacturing Out of China, but It Won’t Be Coming Back to the U.S.
Chimerica” is dead—even if Trump’s trade war ends in a draw.
Read more...The US Massively Underestimates the Trade War Blowback
US trade and economic sanctions not only have not delivered on their stated aims, but they’ve also had unwelcome side effects.
Read more...Clever Tactics “Add Oil” to Hong Kong Protests (and not “Hidden Hands”)
A look at protest tactics in Hong Kong: Umbrellas, Lennon Walls, laser pointers, human chains… And maybe catapults?
Read more...Wolf Richter: World Trade Skids for First Time Since Financial Crisis
Exports by China, Japan, and Eurozone under pressure — in part because of globally weak demand for new vehicles, which transcends the trade war.
Read more...Trump’s China Trade War Gaslighting: Will There Evah Be a Deal?
Why the US and China are likely to remain at loggerheads.
Read more...Hong Kong’s Economy Is Still Important to the Mainland, at Least Financially
Correcting misinformation about Hong Kong’s status sometimes bandied about by critics of its protestors.
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