Mexico and Canada came out OK, the loser was the US. In return for a few concession to sell cheese in Canada and overpriced US made car parts to Mexico, we end up with burned and mistrustful trading partners. What next? China can present Mexico and Canada with a stable bargaining power, a growi[...]
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September 25th, 2018 - 11:58 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
Trump Calls on UN For World Wide End of Socialism
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September 25th, 2018 - 9:53 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
Trump Humiliated at the UN
UN audience literally bursts out laughing at Trump’s speech They didn’t take the president’s bragging very seriously. By Zack Beauchamp@[email protected] Sep 25, 2018, 11:40am EDT One of President Trump’s favorite attacks on his political opponents is to say that the world is “[...]
September 18th, 2018 - 1:47 am § in Foreign Affairs
Will Jack Ma run for President of China?
Jack Ma co-founded Alibaba, China’s internet behmoth .. worth $500 billion. He rose to that role from poverty, the fulfillment of the Chiness Dream. Now Ma’s own wealth is estimated at $40 billion but his power rivals all but President Xi. In a letter to shareholders and emp[...]
August 29th, 2018 - 9:11 am § in Foreign Affairs
Should Nigeria adopt the Chinese model?
Confucius Institutes across Africa are nurturing generations of pro-China Mandarin speakers ON Facebook there is a lot of discussion about the mess in Nigeria. Could China be a model for success in Nigeria. Nigerians I meet on Facebook actually get angry at this idea. They are proud to be democ[...]
August 27th, 2018 - 10:16 am § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
TRADE DEAL: It is in the details!
The details of the Mexico:US Trade agreement: It looks to me as if some good could come out of the Trump admin. Reuters, reports that the agreement with Mexico requires 75% of an automobile’s value to be manufactured in North America, up from NAFTA’s current level of 62.5%. It wo[...]
August 16th, 2018 - 10:32 am § in Environment, Foreign Affairs
Congressional Budget Office Casts Doom on Trump Economy
Once the 1.5 trillion dollar tax cut is spent, the Congressional Budget Office predicts the U.S. economic growth will fall well below the Trump administration’s 3 percent target In an updated economic outlook, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) projected that the long term imp[...]
Putin admits he wanted Trump to win
Watch the video from NBC News here. Even Republicans are criticizing Trump’s performance in Helsinki; two GOP senators called it “bizarre” and “shameful.” Read this story here and here. Putin’s confession contradicts Trump’s previous assertions that Putin [...]
July 13th, 2018 - 12:39 pm § in Donald Trump, Foreign Affairs
An Argument that The Trump Kim Summit was Not a Failure
2018년 7월 13일 금요일 Five Myths about the Singapore U.S.-North Korea Summit Meeting In the mass media, there are too many misconceptions about the U.S.-DPRK (Democratic People’s Republic of Korea or North Korea) Summit held on June 12 between President Donald Trump and Chairman Kim Jong Un[...]