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Two and a Half Cheers for Trump’s New Trade Approach February 22, 2025

There is so much to like about President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff blueprint, it’s hard to know where to begin. At the same time, it does raise some knotty issues that the new administration should address adequately before too long. ...

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Trump's Blunt-Force Tariffs Won’t Work February 22, 2025

The steel industry needs to modernize. Tariffs can help, but the government must go beyond trade policy...

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economics

Myanmar War Effects China, India, & Bangladesh February 21, 2025

Rebel group’s Rakhine takeover in Myanmar risks China’s Belt and Road, India’s trade and Bangladesh’s Rohingya refugees ...

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India Plans More Tariff Changes To Curb Trump Trade Threats February 18, 2025

How China Can Really Pivot to the Global South February 18, 2025

Trade shift from West to Global South requires a new class of Chinese talent and new ways of thinking about the world ...

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Russia and Ukraine Trade Assaults as Peace Talks Loom February 17, 2025

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What No Canadian Wants to Hear About Trump’s Tariffs February 17, 2025

President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 25% tariff on all steel and aluminum imports is the latest of the administration’s threats to the Canadian economy. Canada’s response to these threats has been shockingly near-sighted. Instead of responding ...

The Real Reason Trump Is Waging a Trade War February 17, 2025

In the middle of Donald Trump’s tornado of tariff announcements, policy analysts have been clinging to a single hope. ...

The Munich Attack Reveals a Terrorized Germany February 17, 2025

No nation should be expected to put up with this. The Munich attack yesterday, in which a Mini Cooper ploughed into a trade-union march, injuring nearly 40 people, was the fifth time in nine months that Germans flicked open social media or turned on ...

U.S.-India Must Become Closer With Trump and Modi February 15, 2025

As Prime Minister Narendra Modi arrives in Washington, D.C., his meeting with President Donald Trump holds the potential to reshape global geopolitics. This is not just another diplomatic visit—it is a historic moment to secure India’s rightful place...

Germany’s Fork in the Road Moment February 15, 2025

News broke this morning that “a car” had driven into a crowd of 2,500 Versi trade union demonstrators in Munich, at 10:30 AM (CET) — on the eve of the Munich Security Conference and only ten days away from a federal election, in which the national po...

Germany

Trump Can and Should Save Ukraine February 14, 2025

Trump has been making headway on his campaign promises. From pardoning Jan. 6 rioters, to pulling out of the Paris climate agreement, to threatening tariffs on America’s largest trading partner (and toying with Canada’s sovereignty while he’s at it),...

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China Carrying Out Customs Fraud, Trade Expert Says: ‘No Doubt’ February 13, 2025

Munich Terror Attack Will Fuel Support for AFD February 13, 2025

Germany has, once again, been rattled by a terror attack. This Thursday the target was a protest rally that was organised by a trade union. The authorities revealed that a 24-year-old asylum seeker from Afghanistan had tailed the protest march with h...

Germany

Trump Begins China Trade War by Shoring up Key Allies February 12, 2025

India’s Modi To Boost Trade, Defense Ties in United States Visit February 11, 2025

European Carmakers in Crossfire of US-EU Trade War February 11, 2025

German automakers would face increased costs while already under pressure from heightened competition. ...

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Can Trump Halt the BRICS De-Dollarization Effort? February 11, 2025

Various efforts to reduce reliance on the US dollar in global trade are putting the future of this dominant currency under a spotlight. Donald Trump, the newly elected US president, has returned to the global economic stage with the same aggressive s...

Suggestions for U.S. Success in the Middle East February 10, 2025

Soon, you will be traveling to the Middle East — a region where U.S. interests in energy, trade, security, artificial intelligence and countering China all converge. And your recent success in Panama sets expectations of more gains. ...

Middle East

Trump Should Learn From Helsinki, Not Yalta February 10, 2025

Donald Trump’s presidency is raising fundamental questions about US foreign policy. Will America revive its old tradition of territorial expansion? Will it ignite a protectionist inferno that burns the global trading system to the ground? Yet the gre...

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Trump Is Hardly the West’s Only Trade Warrior February 10, 2025

The hysteria over Trump’s tariffs ignores just how protectionist most economies have become....

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Trade War With U.S. Neighbors Would Increase Energy Costs February 08, 2025

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The U.S. Cannot Ignore China's Desire for a Naval Base in South Africa February 08, 2025

The Trump administration’s Monroe Doctrine inspired pursuit of a sphere of hegemonic influence in the Western hemisphere faces the vulnerability that it has left the entry point to the South Atlantic, the literal backdoor to that sphere, unguarded. ...

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How Turkey Is Rewriting Syria’s Future February 08, 2025

Turkey didn’t orchestrate Assad’s fall, but it’s certainly cashing in on the aftermath. Now, it wants to mould Syria in its own image—if it can keep the Kurds from spoiling the party...

Turkey

How Trump Is Following Shinzo Abe’s Approach To Governing February 07, 2025

When Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba meets U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington, D.C. on Friday, it will be hard to ignore comparisons to the many visits made by the late Prime Minister Shinzo Abe during Trump’s first term. This is a tric...