Hong Kong and Singapore: rivals and partners learning from each other
Small and externally oriented economies, both cities face common challenges and must make common cause, while repositioning and reinventing themselves. Read More Here
Tag: China
What Is Trump’s “New Realism” in Foreign Policy?
Trump’s new foreign policy leans toward recognizing spheres of influence, departing from past interventionism and potentially avoiding future great power conflicts, especially with China, if handled with restraint and clarity. Read More Here
Eat Your AI Slop or China Wins
The new cold war means a race with China over AI, biotech, and more. This poses a hard dilemma: win by embracing technologies that make us more like our enemy — or protect ourselves from tech dehumanization but become subjects to a totalitarian menace. Read More Here
What Is a ‘Reverse Nixon,’ and Can Trump Pull It Off?
President Richard Nixon made history by drawing Communist China closer to the United States, giving Washington an advantage in its Cold War contest with the Soviet Union. Half a century later, President Donald Trump seems to be eyeing a similar diplomatic manoeuvre, but in reverse. Read More Here
Kashmir conflict: the Chinese warplanes and weapons used by Pakistan
China is Pakistan’s biggest arms supplier, and its fighter jets and missiles played a key role in last week’s military exchanges with India. Read More Here
Why Isn’t China Playing Trump’s Game?
Beijing has opted for defiance instead of flattery. Will the strategy backfire? Read More Here
The New Age of Global Trade: Aggressive Neo-Mercantilism
International trade, with the U.S. and China at the forefront, is undergoing a paradigmatic shift away from free trade and toward an aggressive form of neo-mercantilism. Read More Here
The Spectator’s interview with President Trump: full transcript
Edited transcript of Ben Domenech’s exclusive sit-down with Donald Trump — the president’s first magazine interview since his return to the Oval Office. Read Here
What Tariffs Can and Can’t Do
When tariffs are moderate and used to complement a domestic investment agenda, they need not do much harm; they can even be useful. When they are indiscriminate and are not supported by purposeful domestic policies, they do considerable damage – most of it at home. Read More Here
Is China Ready for Donald Trump 2.0?
After a sequence of policy errors, Beijing finds itself in a weakened economic position generally and in an especially poor position to face new tariffs from the incoming Trump administration. Read More Here
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