Advertisements

looking beyond borders

foreign policy and global economy

Archive for the tag “trade”

21 Apr 2019

One Year On, Should India Rethink Its Reset With China?

A year ago, China’s President Xi Jinping and India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi engaged in a closely choreographed series of photo-ops and exchanges at their summit in Wuhan, China. The serene images of Modi and Xi – gazing at pink blossoms and enjoying tea on a boat – telegraphed a return to normalcy after a tense period in ties between the two Asian rivals. But the honeymoon phase in the “new” India-China relationship might be over.

Read Here – WarOnTheRocks

Advertisements
Posted in India and tagged , , , , , , , | Leave a comment
10 Apr 2019

Maldives Ruling Party Pledges Probe Into Chinese Deals After Landslide Win

Maldives former president Mohamed Nasheed, whose party won a landslide in the archipelago’s parliamentary election, on Tuesday pledged to conduct a thorough probe into deals with China. Nasheed’s Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) is set to secure 65 seats in the 87-member parliament, giving it a clear majority to push for reforms including imposing the country’s first income tax and instituting a minimum wage for the first time.

Read Here – South China Morning Post

Posted in Asia and tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment
08 Apr 2019

Will Today’s Global Trade Wars Lead To World War III?

You might not know about a minor trade skirmish in the Balkans that started late last year. But you should, because it signals a worrying shift in how national security considerations are altering the fabric of globalisation in ways eerily similar to how they did at the dawn of the 20th century. That first shift helped start World War I, so in case you’re wondering, yes, I’m going there: The current rise in protectionism could be the precursor to World War III.

Read Here – Reason

Posted in Global Economy and tagged , , | Leave a comment
07 Apr 2019

Trump’s Republican Base Is Wary Of India

Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi meeting Donald Trump, the President of United States of America in Manila, Philippines on November 13, 2017. File photo/PIB

The U.S. decision to remove India from the Generalized System of Preferences program last month, citing its lack of “equitable and reasonable” market access, was the toughest action of the Trump presidency against the country…Stronger measures against India by Congress and the president are indicative of a broader anxiety in the Republican Party that views India as a source of domestic U.S. troubles.

Read Here – The National Interest

Posted in India and tagged , , , , | Leave a comment
05 Apr 2019

How To Make The Most Of China’s Accidental Rise As A European Power

Brussels has misread Beijing’s global aspirations – there is no grand plan behind Chinese acquisitions of European assets. But, as China becomes a stakeholder in Europe, the continent should adopt a pragmatic strategy to profit from this.

Read Here – South China Morning Post

Posted in China and tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment
05 Apr 2019

The Final Showdown In US-China Trade Talks

There is no longer any question that both US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping want an end to the trade war that has weighed on global trade and business investment and still threatens to drag the two superpowers into economic recession.

Read Here – Asia Times

Posted in Global Economy and tagged , , , | Leave a comment
05 Apr 2019

Inside The Chaos Surrounding Britain’s Brexit Boondoggle

Britain’s departure from the European Union and the forging of a new cross-Channel relationship was supposed to be one of the “easiest” deals “in human history.” It has, instead, turned out to be a national nightmare and an international embarrassment.

Read Here – The National Interest

Also read: The Brexit Wreckers

Posted in Uncategorized and tagged , , , , | Leave a comment
03 Apr 2019

What Happens When Europe Comes Apart?

Many have been lamenting the dark path that Europe and the transatlantic relationship are currently on, but there hasn’t been much discussion of where that path leads. European weakness and division, a strategic “decoupling” from the United States, the fraying of the European Union, “after Europe,” “the end of Europe”—these are the grim scenarios, but there is a comforting vagueness to them.

Read Here – Foreign Affairs

Posted in Europe and tagged , , , , , | Leave a comment
31 Mar 2019

Why Iran Is So Afraid Of A Free Iraq

Beyond support for armed militias which take orders more from Tehran than Baghdad, Sistani is also aware that Iraqis, including most Iraqi Shiites, resent more mundane issues such as Iran’s dumping of cheap manufactured goods on the Iraqi market, thereby undercutting struggling Iraqi businesses. The anti-Iranian sentiment is so widespread that when fertilizer run-off poisoned fish in the Tigris River, rumors spread across Baghdad that Iran had killed the fish to force Iraqis to buy from them instead.

Read Here – The National Interest

Posted in Middle East and tagged , , , , , , | Leave a comment
07 Mar 2019

Does Trump Really Want To Win The Trade War?

President Trump appears to be getting advice on China policy from World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE). It’s all starting to resemble a pro-wrestling match where one wrestler gets his opponent in a headlock, throws him to the ground and has him pinned—for a long two seconds—until he miraculously escapes. It’s good theater, but it’s tough on the audience.

Read Here – The National Interest

Posted in United States and tagged , , , , | Leave a comment

Post Navigation

← Older Entries
%d bloggers like this: