Archive for February 2019
Peak US growth under Trump slowest for any US President since World War II
The present US administration is attempting to fight the trade war against China on two fronts. The first is the US economic attack on China, primarily centred at present on tariffs. This is designed by US policy to create objective economic problems for China. Second is the attempt to spread a false view of the…
Read MoreDespite himself Trump admits the superiority of China’s socialist economy to capitalismļ»æ
Major events, such as the Trump administration launching tariff aggression against China, inevitably ruthlessly cut away hollow rhetoric and allow the objective facts of a situation to be seen ā including revealing how the different forces in a situation really judge it. A particularly striking example of this principle, with deep implications not only for…
Read MoreChina is now the main pillar of globalisation
The following article, showingĀ the way China has become the main strategic pillar of globalisation, was written to analyseĀ Xi Jinping’s visit to the World Economic Forum in Davos. However the article has not dated as the analysis has been vindicated by events following this. Anti-globalisation and protectionist tendencies were already developing in US policy before Trump’s…
Read MoreThe US is learning a trade war is truly ālose-loseā
The new round of high-level economic and trade consultations between China and the United States started in Beijing on 21 February morning against a background whereby the world, and the U.S., now has a more accurate understanding of the consequences of a “trade war”. When President Donald Trump initially launched tariffs against China, two perspectives were put…
Read MoreUS share markets fellā¦ so Trump picked up the phone to China!
āMr. Trump has looked to calm markets, which have gyrated in recent daysā ā that was the comment of the Wall Street Journal on the phone call between Presidentās Xi Jinping and Donald Trump on 29 December. The markets the Wall Street Journal was referring to in particular were US share markets. On 28 December,…
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