Latest China

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  Rasmus: The Global Currency War Has Begun

  China’s Yuan Breaks the 7 to $1 Band
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  Rasmus: The Escalating US-China Trade War

  Failing to get China to capitulate in trade talks this...
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  Chen: A New Kind of Internationalism

  A look at Hong Kong Protesters and Militant Chinese Workers
• Biddle: Why an “AI Race” Between the U.S. and China Is a Terrible, Terrible Idea

  Rather than clamoring for a dead sprint toward some sort of national AI supremacy, defined however and by whomever, our time might be better spent worrying in earnest about what lies at the finish line
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  Baker: Trump’s Fixation on Intellectual Property Rights Serves the Rich

  If we had some mechanism for sharing research costs across countries, then new drugs could sell for a few dollars per prescription, instead of a few thousand
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  Rasmus: US vs. China: From Tariff War to Economic War

  Nextgen technology development is at the core of that restructuring and restoration of US hegemony. Trump is just the appearance, the historic vehicle, behind the deeper global capitalist transformation in progress
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  Hiro: Keep America Great (Don’t Count on It!)

  Two Years Later, Trump Has Failed to Reverse America’s Decline
• Dolack: Look to U.S. executive suites, not Beijing, for why production is moved

  Empty public rhetoric aside, Trump administration policy on trade, consistent with its all-out war on working people, is to elevate corporate power
• Gurtov: Why the Trade War with China is So Dangerous

  The trade war is about a lot more than technological competition, soybeans, and even workers’ rights. It is the tip of the iceberg, just one reflection of a world order that, to the Chinese, is rapidly changing in China’s favor
• Etler: Getting China Wrong, Yet Again

  A new Council on Foreign Relations report presents China in a distorted light
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  Klare: The Navy’s War vs. Bolton’s War

  The Pentagon’s Spoiling for a Fight -- But With China, Not Iran
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  Prashad: Does Iran’s economic fate depend on a lifeline from China?

  In the first few months of 2019, China bought about half of Iran’s crude oil exports
• Pastreich: Clash of Civilizations

  Two speeches and two very different approaches to the world
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  Baker: Trump’s Trade War With China and “Our” Intellectual Property

  Some events give extraordinary insights into the biases of the economics profession. The trade war with China clearly fit the bill
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  Baker: Trump’s Trade War With China Is Waged to Make the Rich Richer

  This is yet another policy the U.S. government is pursuing that will increase inequality
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  Rasmus: China-US Trade War: Hiatus or Busted Deal?

  A bona fide Constitutional Crisis is brewing in the US as Trump insists on governing for his 35% supporters and to hell with the rest of the country, and as he governs increasingly at the expense of Congress’ s constitutional rights
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  Prashad: Venezuela’s future depends on China, Russia

  If China and Russia are able to withstand the US pressure – and build alternative financial mechanisms – then a multipolar order can come into being. If they fail, then the world will remain under unipolar dominance
• Milman: US Cities Burn Recyclables After China Bans Imports

  In July 2017, China told the World Trade Organization it no longer wanted to be the end point for yang laji, or foreign garbage, with the country keen to grapple with its own mountains of waste
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  Falk: Worrying About Huawei: Is China Winning the G5 Race?

  US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo warned European countries on Monday that using technology from Huawei could hurt their relationship with the United States
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  Klare: War With China?

  It’s Already Under Way