A document leak gives chilling insight into the biggest detention of an ethnic group, the Uighurs, since the Holocaust.
Read more...Discussion of role of masks in global protest, as Hong Kong’s mask ban is ruled unconstitutional by High Court.
Read more...The iPhone case unambiguously demonstrates that conventional trade statistics significantly inflate China’s trade imbalance with the US.
Read more...Is the GOP willing to embrace a historical political realignment to become an ally of laborers, or at least manufacturing workers?
Read more...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...Oil markets see Trump’s continuing China trade threats as a downer.
Read more...Stocks of Chinese companies listed in the US have turned into a fiasco.
Read more...Chimerica” is dead—even if Trump’s trade war ends in a draw.
Read more...US trade and economic sanctions not only have not delivered on their stated aims, but they’ve also had unwelcome side effects.
Read more...A look at protest tactics in Hong Kong: Umbrellas, Lennon Walls, laser pointers, human chains… And maybe catapults?
Read more...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...Why the US and China are likely to remain at loggerheads.
Read more...Correcting misinformation about Hong Kong’s status sometimes bandied about by critics of its protestors.
Read more...Trump’s tariff strategy is obviously incoherent, but other approaches like anti-trust to improve the US trade’s position are sorely wanting.
Read more...The main driving issue is the realization by the Saudis that, irrespective of the reassuring rhetoric of Trump and Kushner, their bitter nemesis, Qatar, is far more important to the US than the rest of the conservative Arab monarchies and sheikhdoms of the GCC.
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