US President-elect Donald Trump has been treating the world to a “shock and awe” torrent of economic threats: tariffs on allies as well as adversaries; deportation of 11 million undocumented immigrants; retaliation against de-dollarisation...
China’s recently-announced sanctions against two Canadian organizations, the “Uyghur Rights Advocacy Project” and “Canada-Tibet Committee,” are countermeasures. Unlike the West, China does not impose illegal unilateral sanctions. It only counters Western measures, usually undertaken aggressively in...
The Western business press appears chronically dissatisfied with China’s economic policy. Recently, it lamented that while Beijing unveiled the $1.4 trillion plan to restructure local government debt, there is a lack of measures targeting...
Canada’s 100 percent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EV) have just gone into effect and 25 percent tariffs on steel and aluminum will soon follow. China’s Ministry of Commerce has asked the World Trade...
ROGER McKENZIE explores how the political economist’s work on geopolitical economics and involvement with the International Manifesto Group offer crucial insights into global power shifts as US hegemony fades. Cross-posted from the Morning Star....
Modi-Dämmerung. Die Parlamentswahlen brachten dem indischen Premier nicht das gewünschte Ergebnis. Nun muss er mit verringerter Macht regieren...
This August, Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell delivered his annual address to top central bankers and economists, sparking what Bloomberg described as an ‘all-conquering Wall Street rally’. The reaction was in stark contrast to that which...
Three months after the U.S. announcement slapping 100 percent tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EV), Canada has followed suit. As local observers see it, the Trudeau government faced a choice. On the one hand,...
How China-U.S. relations have deteriorated over the Trump and Biden presidencies becomes clear when we consider that U.S. National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan’s visit to Beijing will be his first. By contrast, former National...
Podcast | Politics Theory Other On January 22nd the new Ram temple in Uttar Pradesh was consecrated in a ceremony led by Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. The event kicked off Modi’s election campaign...
