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Trump’s Trade Tariffs: A Gun That Turns On It’s Master
Image a tariff as a gun: and a man in the U.S. stands tall, calm and composed, with this polished gun in hand. He points it at his…
Foreign Policy Analysis
Trump’s Economic McVeighism: Another Gamble with the Global Economy
This month opened in typical Trump-fashion, with Washington imposing blanket tariffs on imports to the US. Following the announcement, markets from New York through Shanghai witnessed severe shockwaves.…
Foreign Policy Analysis
US Tariffs Contradicts WTO Rules on Fair Trade and Non Discrimination
The current US administration has continued the rhetoric of the previous Trump administration (2016-2020) which includes placing trade barriers against China amongst a litany of actions including barriers…
Foreign Policy Analysis
Trump’s Tariffs Have Nothing to Do With a Fair World; It’s A Boomerang Trick to Contain China
The United States President, Donald Trump’s relentless habit of slapping tariffs on other countries has created what I can without doubt call “the politics of beam balance”—with Trump’s…
Foreign Policy Analysis
Why America Will Lose Tariff War Against China
It is impossible to make any assessment of economic growth worldwide without coming face to face with the contribution of China, in any country’s economic growth. But America…
Investments
Trump’s Tariffs Against China: A Threat To Countries’ Legitimate Development Rights
For almost four months now, the Trump administration has arguably rattled global trade, economists, shocked business executives and set off heated exchanges with not only the world’s second…
Investments
Trump’s Tariffs: As China Retaliates, The World Has Refused To Bend The Knee
Trump’s first weeks in office for his administration’s second term have not been short of interesting news. To his critics he has proved right, and to the U.S…
Diplomacy
US Trade Tariffs on China and Vietnam Overestimate American Bargaining Power
As of Wednesday 2nd April, 2025, the American President, Donald.J. Trump announced tariffs globally against countries he accuses of benefitting off what he calls American clemency and the ineptitude of…
Diplomacy
Trump’s Commercial Diplomacy is Setting the Stage for a Multipolar World
After the fall of the Berlin wall in November 1989, Washington along with its Western allies was clueless of what would happen next. They had developed their whole systems to…
Foreign Policy Analysis
China On Proposed Gaza Takeover By US: War Should Not Have The Last Word
The Gaza question seemed at first to be an easier one to answer on the side of Israel, but that could not have been the case. It seemed…