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The biggest cloud hanging over the world economy is the incipient trade war with China launched by US President Donald Trump. But with America’s closest allies rejecting Trump's protectionism, can the US really afford to go it alone?
May 16, 2019 assesses the damage that President Donald Trump's trade policies have inflicted on the US economy.
May 14, 2019 says the recent breakdown in US-China trade talks may reflect a clash over styles as much as substance.
May 14, 2019 calls the Trump administration's clash-of-civilizations approach misguided and self-defeating.
May 3, 2019 warns that any agreement forcing China to maintain a rigid exchange rate would be a recipe for disaster.
Apr 30, 2019 thinks the world should brace itself for an escalating zero-sum conflict between the United States and China.
Apr 26, 2019 says that just when US Republicans and Democrats manage to agree on an issue, they both get it wrong.
As with the proceedings against former US Presidents Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton, the impeachment inquiry into Donald Trump is ultimately a domestic political issue that will be decided in the US Congress. But, unlike those earlier cases, the Ukraine scandal threatens to jam up the entire machinery of US foreign policy.
America owes its economic strength to its private sector, which has long benefited from an absence of undue influence by politicians and the state. But under US President Donald Trump's administration, discretionary decisions by policymakers are increasingly giving some companies advantages over others.
