Latest China

• 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
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  Rasmus: Trump’s Déjà vu China Trade War (Part II)

  Part II of the analysis of Trump’s Déjà vu China-US trade ‘war’ from last March 2018 through mid-January 2019
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  Weisbrot: Trump’s Trade Policy Towards China

  A Distraction to Benefit the Rich
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  Baker: Going with Patent Holders Against Workers

  Trump seems to have made the concerns of companies like Boeing, who want more help maintaining their control over technology, his top priority
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  Pilger: New Cold War & looming threats

  Interview on U.S.’ aggression in the Asia-Pacific region and the decline of its global dominance and says that a “new Cold War beckons isolation for the U.S. and danger for the rest of us”
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  Rasmus: A US-China Trade War ‘Armistice’?

  Trump ‘Blinks’ at G20 Meeting and Retreats
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  Baker: Trump’s Tariffs a Tax on the US Middle Class

  Donald Trump’s trade war with China will mean more money for shareholders and fewer US jobs in manufacturing. This is not a good story for the country’s workers
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  McCoy: Beijing’s Bid for Global Power in the Age of Trump

  “America First” Versus China’s Strategy of the Four Continents