As America abandons the gospel of free-market economics, we consider how the once-cursed industrial policy makes a comeback in Washington to better fight the Chinese.
The city’s mostly self-made problems led to unrest, which has been exploited by the West against Beijing’s attempt to restore stability.
The manufactured ‘China threat’ is really about Taiwan’s hidden drive for independence and America’s need to preserve regional dominance.
Instead of weaponising the Ukraine crisis against China, Washington should work with Beijing to prepare for any Russian fallout.
A system that has everyone at the table, but where only a select few enjoy a full-course meal, might not be as desirable as it claims to be.
Hanoi walks a tightrope as it wants a US security presence in the region, but does not want to be dragged into Chinese-American rivalry.
An EU paper explains how traditional Western allies on the continent are being turned into vassal states of the US as part of Washington’s strategy to contain the rise of China.
Under the US’ new industrial policy, mineral-rich Canada is finding that being its friendly neighbour can cost an arm and a leg, maybe more.
It’s a price well worth paying for Beijing to win back Delhi’s neutrality by resolving or at least stabilising their long-standing border dispute.
While it’s unclear whether he meant to sound tough by comparing his Chinese counterpart to ‘dictators’ or it was another of his now-routine gaffes, the US president’s foggy mind and unsteady feet mean retirement is a more humane option than running for a second term.
Central Europe was freed from yoke of Soviet empire, now the western hemisphere must liberate itself from American sphere of influence.
Given the complete mess Washington has made in the region over decades, maybe even Israel will find value in greater Chinese engagement.
The US has created most of the problems, and it now asks China to cooperate and address them.
Rarely used after the collapse of the case against the late Daniel Ellsberg, the Espionage Act is now employed against those who expose crimes.
The West has for too long imposed its skewed version of rights on the rest by weaponising them, and the time has now come to correct that.
Cormac McCarthy, who died this week, conveys more truth and reality about the US’ bloody expansionist history in his novel ‘Blood Meridian’ than most non-fiction books on the country that are mostly fiction.
Latest study by ICAN finds that the United States spends far more on such weapons than all the other nuclear-armed states combined.
New study comes up with terrifying scenario involving Western and Chinese payment systems that is already here.
Such a friendly American gesture also comes at a time when Washington is rallying them against Russia, China and anyone it doesn’t like.
No thanks to Tsai, TSMC is waking up to the danger of Washington’s ‘friendshoring’ of its most advanced chip-making capabilities.
The paranoia and racism of novelist Jack London greatly mirror those of the anti-China hawks in the Anglo-Saxon sphere today.
Since hard facts and good analyses are so hard to come by, people understandably end up going by their gut instincts or moral preferences.
The more the dollar is weaponised the faster people will try to dump it, while sanctions are increasingly seen as abusive rather than legitimate.
The rightward drift leading to increasingly illiberal and populist politics in Europe – and a leftist takeover in South America that is likely to defy long-standing US imperialism in the western hemisphere – may prove favourable to China’s ascendancy.
While it is desirable to calm tensions in the South China Sea and over Taiwan, US war history shows it only exploits an ‘accident’ to go to war when it really wants to.
Shangri-La Dialogue was no missed opportunity for talks as defence chiefs Austin and Marles insisted on belligerence and doublespeak.
Bloc members may have different regimes, ideologies and religions, but they share a deep resentment of Western dominance and US hegemony.
Such terms and phrases as a rules-based system, de-risking, democracy vs autocracy, and coercive behaviour are not exhaustive but still expose obfuscation and double standards.
With no real desire to reach out, those at the White House are like aliens from sci-fi comedy ‘Mars Attacks!’ who come in peace but want to kill.
From the birth of the Lion City in 1960s Asia, a region that was up in geopolitical flames, to its struggle to become one of the world’s most successful economies, there is actually no comparison.
