‘Killing the Golden Goose’ – Integration in the Global Economy
Originally, I started this piece lamenting the ‘failed’ effort to bring China into the global economy following the failure by the CCP - the Party, and the Chinese government to…
Originally, I started this piece lamenting the ‘failed’ effort to bring China into the global economy following the failure by the CCP - the Party, and the Chinese government to…
I see, and I’m sure you have as well, the repeated refrain that describes the current disorder brought on by Russia in Europe, US-China actions in the Indo Pacific and…
We’ve known for some time by examining history that it’s much easier to start a war than it is to stop one. And I suspect the Russia-Ukraine war will prove…
It wasn’t long ago that demands for a more ‘strategic autonomy’ approach for Europe seemed to slip away with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. As Steven Erlanger of the NYTimes wrote…
Well yes a bit late. Sorry. And also a bit shorter. Indeed, I am anticipating rather shorter Posts, and possibly later than usual for the next Post as well as…
As much destruction, it seems, as this second Trump administration can engineer! And fast! One can’t avoid ‘reeling’ from the current Trump administration actions and plans. And yet we are…
The Trump attack on interdependence - particularly economic - has felt foolish and destructive but without question - relentless. What appeared to be a stalling out with Biden’s ill-disguised protectionism,…
It was hard to swallow the various initiatives and proposals that flooded from the White House and indeed Trump’s lips this week. Where does one start - with Gaza and…
Many anticipated, and or feared, the flood of Executive Orders from the second Trump White House these past weeks. The barrage of Executive Orders follows a playbook conceived from a…
Well, I guess we shouldn’t have been surprised. But since I’ve never spent time listening to Trump speeches - I thought I would listen to Trump’s Second Inaugural . As…