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.
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Some Notes on North Korea
Trying to get past the groupthink on the North Korea summit.
Read more...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.
Read more...More US and China Jousting Over South China Sea
The US-China conflict over the South China Sea keeps getting hotter.
Read more...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.
Read more...Wall Street Journal: Why Bashing Chinese Steel Dumping Results in Bashing Allies
Why combatting Chinese steel dumping is harder than it seems.
Read more...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.
Read more...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.
Read more...Trade War: How Tensions Have Risen Between China, the EU and the US
A very useful recap of trade measures taken so far and potential impacts of various threats made by the US, China, and EU.
Read more...Trump Willing to Give a China a Break on Sanctions Against ZTE Electronics. What Gives?
Trump again does what he seems to do best, the unexpected, with a Sunday tweet offering a break to sanctioned Chinese electronics maker ZTE. How does this fit into the US-China trade spat?
Read more...China’s Bid To Assist Assad In Syrian Reconstruction Is About Security and Profit
China sees a nation-building opportunity in Syria that the US won’t consider.
Read more...Michael Hudson: “Creating Wealth” Through Debt: The West’s Finance-Capitalist Road
Why debt is the great threat to modern China’s development.
Read more...China Warns Australia Against Being a Democracy
China throws its weight around even more casually than the US does, achieving the difficult task of making Trump look not so bad.
Read more...Raising Tariffs on China Without Grabbing Headlines
How Europe raised tariffs on more Chinese imports than Trump has threatened to.
Read more...The Hudson Report: Does Trump Know Anything About Trade?
Michael Hudson discusses Trump’s trade row with China.
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