THE not so UGLY AMERICAN CHINAMAN (Der Spiegel, abridged and edited) Liao Liang’s title is as a senior editor of the China Global Television Network (CGTN), a subsidiary of Chinese state television. That is an understatement. 先生 Liao Liang’s mission in the Kenyan capital is that[...]
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The US Navy is Flunking the Polar Test of Global Warming
While Trump touts spending billions of dollars to build more F35 fighter jets, he seems not to understand even the basics of our military needs. After all, won’t global warming make the ice breakers obsolete? Seems like our opponents get a different message. As the poles melt, the Russia[...]
Will Trump’s Trade Wars Kill Apple?
1 Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios (Axios, June 18, 2019, abstracted) A growing chorus of skeptics betting that Apple is headed the way of Blackberry and Nokia. In the midst of the Trump Trade Wars, Apple’s stock price has relied on more than $100 billion in stock repurchases last yea[...]
BREAKING NEWS: China Escalates Trade War!
China: Don’t say we didn’t warn you! The Global Times tweeted that China is “seriously” considering restricting rare earths exports to the U.S. China’s official state People’s Daily is hinting Wednesday that Beijing is about to retaliate against Trump by cutting [...]
The Manufacturing Boom: 10 Times The Gain in Manufacturing Jobs Versus Obama Era
The most impressive, perhaps only impressive, achievement of the Trump era is the growth in manufacturing jobs. (based, in part, on an essay in Forbes) When President Obama came to office he inherited two crisis .. the immediate threat of a second Great Depression and the longer-term threat of a per[...]
UPDATE: China is Ready to fight Trump’s Trade War
LET’S LAY OUT THE WEAPONS FOR THIS WAR Trump is demanding that AMERICANS pay a 25% tax if China does not give in to his demands. Trump’s threats, dating back to his election, go as high as 45% tariffs on all Chinese goods. That would essentially cut the US and China off from trade. T[...]
Who would want the job of US President?
The damage Trump has done to the US is historic. The key issue as we entered this century was whether the US would be able to compete with China. Trump has not only given that away he has built a monster with Putin. The US is going to be hobbled for a long time. Even […][...]
Insights into China
As China emerges as a dominant global economic power, I find few places where I can read objective material of the new superpower. Two that I value are The Economist and Quartz. QUARTZ: Dear readers, SUBSCRIBE TO QUARTZ China is battling the United States to become the largest economy in the world, [...]
CHINA Becoming #1 in Tech?
Seems like soybean tariffs do not block foreign firms looking to China for “made in China” technology! Anyone want to buy soybeans? How about some natural gas or pork? Can any superpower live off off a superpower navy with a third world production economy? Isn’t that what happene[...]
CHINA vs the US: Is Corporate China the End of History?