Tag: China
Trump orders US nuclear weapons testing to resume for the first...
The president’s directive to restart nuclear weapons testing, announced just before his meeting with China’s Xi Jinping, has sparked alarm among arms control experts and lawmakers who warn it could trigger global escalation and radioactive fallout.
Trump’s Pacific pivot
Trump's plan: negotiate with China today, fight a war with it tomorrow.
Chip curbs and the folly of US techno-nationalism
Is Trump's high-tech policy schizophrenic?
Trade war and immigration crackdown push US farmers to the brink
Farmers describe collapsing export markets, labor shortages, and a missing safety net as tariffs and immigration policies reshape U.S. agriculture.
Seven things Tom Cotton needs to learn about China
Here's what Senator Tom Cotton's recent book on China got all wrong.
This chart explains why Trump backflipped on tariffs. The economic damage...
The answer is simple: the economic cost to the U.S. was too high.
How Trump’s tariffs are pushing the world toward economic chaos
This policy represents a stark departure from decades of U.S. trade strategy, which will certainly push key economic allies to resort to retaliatory measures.
Jimmy Carter told Trump how to put America first, but will...
If Trump really wants to put America first in his second term, he would do well to remember Carter's advice.
The world’s four legacy empires going down
In a future full of signs that the four empires that have long dominated our world are all crumbling.
Trump confronts a rising China
Can he manage U.S.-China relations without precipitating World War III?
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Could Trump’s Iran fiasco be America’s Suez crisis?
The U.S. war on Iran today, but similarities in the larger context, suggest that the United States is facing the same kind of “end of empire” moment that the British Empire faced in that historic crisis.
Trump DOJ subpoenas reporters after Iran war leaks trigger escalating clash with the press
The Trump administration has reportedly issued subpoenas targeting journalists and news organizations over Iran war reporting, intensifying concerns that the Justice Department is being used to expose confidential sources and pressure outlets covering national security issues
Wow! Losing the war PLUS losing the peace – the frenzy of fiascos ravage...
What other blundering buffoons ever lost a war (of choice), then willfully lost the peace via threats, phony bluffs and tin-ear, belligerent BS?
Too much money, too little democracy: Americans across party lines reject billionaire power in...
A new national poll finds widespread bipartisan concern that billionaires, dark money and special interest spending are overpowering ordinary voters in U.S. elections as campaign spending continues to shatter records.
Now you see them… now you don’t
Women leaders and Trump 2.0.