Category Archives: China

John Feffer: Trump Doctrine as Kamikaze Antiglobalism

Is extreme antiglobalism the doctrine that undergirds many of Trump’s actions?

Marshall Auerback: Trump’s Trade War with China Will Cause an Economic Catastrophe — Here’s a Better Solution

How to impose trade rules that will bring jobs back to the US in a much more surgical manner than a costly and potentially self-defeating trade wars.

Europe Isolates China Trade Cheat

The “every man for himself” game of responding to Trump’s trade threats is working against China’s hope to team up with Europe.

EU Calls Trump’s Bluff on Auto Tariffs as Trump Tries Dead on Arrival WTO Exit Plan

The EU is neither happy with nor cowed by Trump’s latest trade threat.

China’s Strategic Investments in Europe: The Case of Maritime Ports

The EU is rethinking its policies on foreign direct investment. Recent Chinese investment into ports may impact the final rules.

Wilkerson: Don’t Trust Trump, Bolton to Deliver US-North Korea Peace

Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson and Real News Network host Aaron Mate mix it up a bit more than usual on the topic of North Korea.

Some Notes on Trump’s Trade War Threat

Some observations about the Trump-China spat.

Paul Jay on Trump’s Iran War Agenda and Liberals’ Korea Peace Panic

The Real News Network’s Paul Jay contends that Trump and his team are focused on Iran as they carry out the Project for a New American Century plan.

Some Notes on North Korea

Trying to get past the groupthink on the North Korea summit.

How Chinese Investors Inflate Housing Markets in the US, Canada, and Australia, as Governments Try to Stem the Tide

How Chinese money is distorting home prices in major cities around the world, and how local authorities are starting to intervene.

More US and China Jousting Over South China Sea

The US-China conflict over the South China Sea keeps getting hotter.

Jim Chanos on Fraud: “Cryptocurrency Is a Security Speculation Game Masquerading as a Technological Breakthrough”

The legendary short seller Jim Chanos in a wide-ranging discussion of financial frauds, starting with cryptocurrencies: Bitcoin is the last thing he’d want to own in the event of a catastrophe.

Wall Street Journal: Why Bashing Chinese Steel Dumping Results in Bashing Allies

Why combatting Chinese steel dumping is harder than it seems.

China Rx: How the US Depends on China for Its Drugs

Why does China need a military? It could bring the US to its knees in months by withholding shipments of drugs and drug ingredients.

Playing Trump for Peace: How the Korean Peninsula Could Become a Bright Spot in a World Gone Mad

John Feffer focuses on how the US should allow the Koreans can do the real work, the historic work, the breakthrough work, of knitting the peninsula back together.