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War with China? What Fun!

I’d Rather Be Ruled by Brain-Damaged Twelve-Year-Olds

Fred Reed • April 3, 2021

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There is no limit to misjudgement. If the psychic curiosities in the Federal bunker start a war with China, or push Beijing into starting one, it will be blamed on a proximate cause, such as a collision of warships after which some lieutenant who joined on waivers lost it and opened fire. After all, historians... Read More

Autocracy vs. Democracy or China vs. America?

Pat Buchanan • March 30, 2021

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"I've known Xi Jinping for a long time. ... He doesn't have a democratic -- with a small 'd' -- bone in his body," said Joe Biden in his first press conference as president, and then he ambled on: "He's one of the guys, like (Russian President Vladimir) Putin, who thinks that autocracy is the... Read More

Nike openly supports “death to America” rhetoric. Because it’s the right thing to do, I guess?

Nike Condemns the Chinese, Says They’re Not Using Products from Xinjiang

Andrew Anglin • March 26, 2021

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Nike: leading the forefront of global morality since 2018. Fox News: (The Jewish media is spinning a story about cotton-picking slaves. This is the narrative. They’re accusing the Chinese of the same sins they accuse White Americans of. You see how that works?) The social media fallout comes as relations between the United States and... Read More

Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi is set to exchange views with his US counterpart in Alaska. Image: Facebook

For Leviathan, It’s So Cold in Alaska

Wang Yi and Yang Jiechi will seek to make shark's fin soup out of Antony Blinken and Jake Sullivan at the Anchorage summit

Pepe Escobar • March 18, 2021

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Leviathan seems to be positioning itself for a geopolitical Kill Bill rampage – yet brandishing a rusty samurai high-carbon-steel sword. Predictably, US deep state masters have not factored in that they could eventually be neutralized by a geopolitical Five Point Palm Exploding Heart Technique. In a searing, concise essay, Alastair Crooke pointed to the heart... Read More

American Pravda: Covid-19, Its Impact and Origins After One Year

As We Rapidly Approach a Million American Deaths

Ron Unz • March 15, 2021

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Winston Churchill famously observed that in wartime the truth must be surrounded by a bodyguard of lies. Many of my own long and most controversial articles have followed a somewhat analogous presentation, with the opening sections that sometimes run hundreds of words or longer often being rather innocuous or even somewhat off-topic. These are intended... Read More

Is a Cold War II with China Inevitable?

Pat Buchanan • March 12, 2021

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Today, the four premier leaders of The Quad -- the U.S., Australia, India and Japan -- conduct their first summit, by teleconference. The Quad, or Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, is an informal strategy forum of the major Indo-Pacific democracies that some wish to see evolve into an Asian NATO to contain China, as NATO contained the... Read More

Dispatches from the New Cold War

Fred Reports from Foxhole

Fred Reed • March 4, 2021

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Today’s characteristically luminous insights will be disordered and structurally horrifying, the sort of essay that would have sent my high-school English teacher into anaphylactic shock. In exculpation I plead laziness. Recently I wrote a column on China’s digital yuan, now in late-stage testing. Bare-bones explanation: You download a digital-wallet app with which you can then... Read More

Coexistence or Cold War with China?

Pat Buchanan • January 26, 2021

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"The United States acknowledges that all Chinese on either side of the Taiwan Strait maintain there is but one China and that Taiwan is a part of China. The United States... does not challenge that position." Thus did President Nixon, in the Shanghai Communique of 1972, accept China's territorial claim to the island of Taiwan.... Read More

Trump’s Not-So-secret Art of Containing China

Pepe Escobar • January 14, 2021

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It was hardly a secret throughout the Trump administration. Now, dying embers within sight, and with minimum fanfare, comes the declassification - virtually the whole document, minus a few redactions – of the US Strategic Framework for the Indo-Pacific. Why now, no less than 30 years before the usual, standard US declassification/public record protocols apply?... Read More

China Trolls the West’s Delusions and Hypocrisies

Gregory Hood • January 12, 2021

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Respectable political opinion in the West is mostly nonsense. Sometimes, even race realists become so used to the stupidity that we are like the fish who never notice water. Sometimes it takes China, a self-respecting civilization-state, to expose our elites’ silly beliefs and shameless hypocrisy. American journalists and politicians are in a moral panic over... Read More

Source: Foreign Ministry of the People’s Republic of China

Containment Is Futile: Europe and China Seal Investment Deal as U.S. Grumbles

Guillaume Durocher • January 6, 2021

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The European Union and China have agreed “in principle” to a deal on investment after seven long years of negotiation, pointedly ignoring the concerns of the incoming Biden administration. The economic consequences of the so-called Comprehensive Agreement on Investment (CAI) remain unclear, but the political signals are telling: the EU is following an essentially German... Read More

DECEMBER DIARY [10 ITEMS]: Cruz Kills Hong Kong Influx Bill; Picking Chinese Nits with AMREN's Jared Taylor; James Flynn RIP; Philocaption

John Derbyshire • January 1, 2021

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Footnote to that: I've known that quote for as long as I can remember, but without recalling why I know it. I've never read William Cobbett, so it must have been somewhere else I saw it. The mystery was solved as an indirect result of my posting, in last month's diary, a few words of... Read More

China: Ten Predictions for 2021

You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Godfree Roberts • December 29, 2020

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2021, the centennial of Mao’s founding of the Communist Party, was long planned to be a breakout year. When the Party took power in 1949, China was the poorest country on earth, which makes these achievements the more remarkable: GDP will expand by 10%. Western experts predict 8% and, since their predictions are always low,... Read More

An Expert Military Analysis of War with China

Actually, None is Necessary

Fred Reed • December 13, 2020

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The Correlation of Armed Forces: U.S. goods and services trade with China totaled an estimated $634.8 billion in 2019. Exports were $163.0 billion; imports were $471.8 billion. The U.S. goods and services trade deficit with China was $308.8 billion in 2019. Trade in services with China (exports and imports) totaled an estimated $76.7 billion in... Read More

US Hits Search and Destroy Against the New Silk Roads

Pepe Escobar • December 9, 2020

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Seven years after being launched by President Xi Jinping, first in Astana and then in Jakarta, the New Silk Roads, or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) increasingly drive the American plutocratic oligarchy completely nuts. The relentless paranoia about the Chinese “threat” has much to do with the exit ramp offered by Beijing to a Global... Read More

Dragon Flies, Eagle Crashes at Geoeconomic Summits

Pepe Escobar • November 23, 2020

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Four geoeconomic summits compressed in one week tell the story of where we stand in these supremely dystopian times. The (virtual) signing of RCEP in Vietnam was followed by the equally virtual BRICS meeting hosted by Moscow, the APEC meeting hosted by Malaysia, and the G20 this past weekend hosted by Saudi Arabia. Cynics have... Read More

Give Us Liberty or Give Us Artificial Intelligence Victory Over China? I Choose Liberty

John Derbyshire • October 24, 2020

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Earlier (2011): John Derbyshire On Understanding China And The Chinese [Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Having been writing about China for forty years, I was naturally interested to see what Trump and Biden had to say about the country in last Thursday’s debate. Answer: Nothing with any real insight... Read More

Anti-Chinese Racism Sets Stage for New McCarthyism

John V. Walsh • October 13, 2020

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More than a dozen young visiting scholars from China had their visas abruptly terminated in a letter from administration of the University of North Texas (UNT), Denton, on August 26, in a letter dated …August 26! The letter informed the students that they could return to campus from their lodgings to pick up belongings, but... Read More

Is War with China Becoming Inevitable?

Pat Buchanan • October 13, 2020

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"The Indians are seeing 60,000 Chinese soldiers on their northern border," Secretary of State Michael Pompeo ominously warned on Friday. He spelled out what he meant to commentator Larry O'Connor: "The Chinese have now begun to amass huge forces against India in the north. ... They absolutely need the United States to be their ally... Read More

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The Limits of Chinese Power

Pepe Escobar • October 8, 2020

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Everything about US-China hinges on the result of the upcoming US presidential election. Trump 2.0 essentially would turbo-charge its bet on decoupling, aiming to squeeze “malign” China on a multiple Hybrid War front, undermine the Chinese trade surplus, co-opt large swathes of Asia, while always insisting on characterizing China as evil incarnate. Team Biden, even... Read More

Sinophobia, Lies and Hybrid War

Pepe Escobar • September 23, 2020

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It took one minute for President Trump to introduce a virus at the virtual 75th UN General Assembly, blasting “the nation which unleashed this plague onto the world”. And then it all went downhill. Even as Trump was essentially delivering a campaign speech and could not care less about the multilateral UN, at least the... Read More

China and the Washington Oscars

Fred Reed • September 19, 2020

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As the presidential debates approach, and our grotesque candidates prepare to compete for Best Actor, with their supporting casts of pollsters, advance men, media shills, gestures coaches, focus groups, and allied technicians of mendacity, Americans of broad historical illiteracy, which is most of them, hear endlessly of the evils of China. Whether the evils exist... Read More

31,000 Words Missing from The Atlantic and The New York Times Sunday Magazine

Ron Unz • September 9, 2020

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For many years I had predicted to my friends that the increasingly bizarre and incompetent behavior of America's ruling elites might soon result in a major "negative discontinuity" for our unfortunate country, the sort of massive event that future authors would use to divide one section of a thick history textbook from the next. I... Read More

Everything Going According to Plan in China

The contours of China's long-term strategy for the new Cold War are quickly coming into view

Pepe Escobar • August 24, 2020

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Let's start with the story of an incredibly disappearing summit. Every August, the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP) converges to the town of Beidaihe, a seaside resort some two hours away from Beijing, to discuss serious policies that then coalesce into key planning strategies to be approved at the CCP Central Committee plenary... Read More

Huawei, Tik-Tok and WeChat

Larry Romanoff • August 8, 2020

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First, let's dispel the combined notion that China spies on everyone and the US spies on no one. There is so much public evidence to destroy both these assertions that I won't bother repeating them here. I will however remind readers that a few years ago China more or less banned Windows 8 from the... Read More

Connecting the Dots

Larry Romanoff • June 24, 2020

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As one example, this many decades ago, we noticed that in our city in Canada one brand of American convenience store seemed to have a habit of opening new stores within a stone's throw of the existing 'mom and pop' variety stores (as they were then called), these shiny and attractive new shops inevitably resulting... Read More

Can We Coexist with Asia's Communists?

Pat Buchanan • June 19, 2020

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Wednesday, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met for seven hours at Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii with the chief architect of China's foreign policy, Yang Jiechi. The two had much to talk about. As The Washington Post reports, the "bitterly contentious relationship" between our two countries has "reached the lowest point in almost half... Read More

Beijing Sees Trump’s Hand and Won’t Fold

Pepe Escobar • May 30, 2020

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Stranger things have happened. Everyone was expecting US President Donald Trump to go nuclear by de facto sanctioning China to death over Hong Kong. In an environment where Twitter and the President of the United States are now engaged in open warfare, the rule is that there are no rules anymore. So in the end,... Read More

Du Wei, the Chinese ambassador to Israel. Courtesy of the Chinese Embassy in Israel, via Reuters

A Death in Herzliya

Mystery Remains About the Death of the Chinese Ambassador

Philip Giraldi • May 27, 2020

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On Sunday morning May 17th, China's Ambassador to Israel, Du Wei, was found dead in bed inside his official residence in the Tel Aviv upscale suburb of Herzliya. He was 57 years old, married and the father of a son, and had been appointed to his position in February. He was reported to be in... Read More

Ron Unz and Other Truth-Seekers to Explore Corona Bioweapon Hypothesis This Sunday

Kevin Barrett • May 27, 2020

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The Unz Review has been blacklisted by Facebook and Google in apparent retaliation for its articles exploring the COVID-19 bioweapon hypothesis, especially Ron Unz’s blockbuster “American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?” When deep state censors react that way, we may reasonably assume that they have something to hide. By sending such a strong... Read More

Jinping Takes Up the US Challenge

Pat Buchanan • May 26, 2020

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Is the U.S. up for a second Cold War -- this time with China? What makes the question newly relevant is that Xi Jinping's China suddenly appears eager for a showdown with the United States for long-term supremacy in the Asia-Pacific and the world. With the U.S. consumed by the coronavirus pandemic that has killed... Read More

China Has Problems In New Bipolar World—But U.S. Has Worse

John Derbyshire • May 25, 2020

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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] See also: GOP Plans To Scapegoat China. But That Must Include ENDING CHINESE IMMIGRATION! One thing that, it seems to me, is much more apparent than it was three months ago: we are living in a bipolar world, or soon shall be. I know... Read More

China: One Country, Two Sessions, Three Threats

Pepe Escobar • May 22, 2020

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The key takeaways of the Two Sessions of the 13th National People’s Congress in Beijing are already in the public domain. In a nutshell: no GDP target for 2020; a budget deficit of at least 3.6% of GDP; one trillion yuan in special treasury bonds; corporate fees/taxes cut by 2.5 trillion yuan; a defense budget... Read More

A Chinese anti-US propaganda poster from the Korean War era. Photo: Facebook

China Updates Its ‘Art of (Hybrid) War’

Pepe Escobar • May 19, 2020

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In 1999, Qiao Liang, then a senior air force colonel in the People’s Liberation Army, and Wang Xiangsui, another senior colonel, caused a tremendous uproar with the publication of Unrestricted Warfare: China’s Master Plan to Destroy America. Unrestricted Warfare was essentially the PLA’s manual for asymmetric warfare: an updating of Sun Tzu’s Art of War.... Read More

The Digital Yuan: Will It End the Dollar Dictatorship?

Eric Striker • May 16, 2020

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In mid-April, the US Federal Reserve began "swapping" $500 billion dollars with banks around the world. The almighty dollar is virtually the only chip you can use in the international capitalist casino. Globally, non-American banks hold $12.4 trillion dollars, which they loan out to other non-American entities for loans, to pay debts, or to conduct... Read More

Coexistence with China or Cold War II?

Pat Buchanan • May 12, 2020

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Under fire for his handling of the coronavirus pandemic, President Donald Trump, his campaign and his party are moving to lay blame for the 80,000 U.S. dead at the feet of the Communist Party of China and, by extension, its longtime General Secretary, President Xi Jinping. "There is a significant amount of evidence" that the... Read More

A China yuan banknote featuring late Chinese chairman Mao Zedong and a computer keyboard are seen reflected on an image of Chinese flag in this illustration picture taken November 1, 2019. REUTERS/Florence Lo/Illustration - RC14C5905790

Get Ready for the Next Game-Changer: the Digital Yuan

Pepe Escobar • May 5, 2020

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A new, radical paradigm shift is in progress. The U.S. economy may shrink as much as 40% in the first semester of 2020. China, already the world’s largest economy by PPP for a few years now, may soon become the world’s largest economy even in exchange rate terms. The post-Planet Lockdown world – still a... Read More

Cold War of Trump/Navarro vs. China - More Dangerous Than Covid-19

Andre Vltchek • April 30, 2020

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It is getting ugly, extremely ugly. It is increasingly looking like a war – at least a new ‘cold’, ideological war. But in the shadow of COVID-19, it goes almost unnoticed. The blind horseman, who hates China intuitively, without knowing hardly anything about it, is leading the pack, pushing his president into a confrontation with... Read More

Up for a New Cold War -- with China?

Pat Buchanan • April 28, 2020

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Is America, in lockdown, with 26 million unemployed and entering a new depression, up for a confrontation and Cold War with China? For that appears to be where the GOP wishes to lead us. According to Politico, a 57-page memo from Mitch McConnell's senatorial committee instructs GOP candidates to blame the coronavirus pandemic on China,... Read More

American Pravda: Our Coronavirus Catastrophe as Biowarfare Blowback?

Ron Unz • April 21, 2020

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Nearly 30,000 Americans have died from the coronavirus during the last two weeks, and by some estimates this is a substantial under-count, while the death-toll continues to rapidly mount. Meanwhile, measures to control the spread of this deadly infection have already cost 22 million Americans their jobs, an unprecedented economic collapse that has pushed our... Read More

The Hunt for Patient Zero

Another American Index Case?

Godfree Roberts • April 10, 2020

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In our last episode, Last Man Standing, we wondered if the Covid-19 outbreak might prove advantageous to China. Here we speculate about how–thanks to a bureaucratic decision about a common illness–it may cause America to lose world hegemony. *** Finding the Index Case, Patient Zero, of an epidemic is critical to understanding and curbing further... Read More

Does China Outspend US on Defense?

Can We Afford an Arms Race with the World’s Biggest Economy?

Godfree Roberts • February 28, 2020

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In 2015 RAND reported, “China can now hold the US Navy’s surface fleet at risk at significant ranges from the mainland”. Two years later the Pentagon calculated, “The PLAN is the largest navy in Asia, with more than 300 surface ships, submarines, amphibious and patrol craft.” In 2018, the US Navy’s Indo-Pacific Commander, Adm. Philip... Read More

China and America: Scoping Out the Megacepts

Fred Reed • February 7, 2020

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Today, regarding China and America, we will have Thought Most Potent, adequate to lube a diesel, curdle milk, or seal a driveway. Whole departments of international studies will close their doors in despair. Ha. Why, we ask, does it seem that the Middle Kingdom advances speedily on so many fronts, while the US doesn’t? The... Read More

Let’s Move the Goalposts. the US-China Confrontation

Larry Romanoff • February 6, 2020

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The prospect of ‘moving the goalposts’ is a peculiarly American strategy to ensure that America will always win. To accomplish this, one either moves the goalposts in position to receive the ball regardless of how badly-aimed it might be, or moves them out of the path of the opponent’s well-placed kick so he fails to... Read More

Remarks on the US/China “Trade Deal”

Paul Craig Roberts • January 18, 2020

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The first thing to understand is that it is not a trade deal. It is Trump backing off his tariffs when he discovered that the tariffs fall on US goods and American consumers, not on China. Trump is covering his retraction by calling it a trade deal. China’s part of the deal is to agree... Read More

China, Number One Economic Power for Half Decade, Dashes On

Ignorance or Denial by the U.S. Poses Grave Dangers

John V. Walsh • January 14, 2020

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The recent China International Import Expo (CIIE) in Shanghai attracted little attention in the Western press but it is one more reminder that China is an economic and trading powerhouse that has surpassed the US. That is right, the word is “surpassed.” The CIIE also serves to remind us that China’s economic power now stands... Read More

Binary People in an Analogue World. What Is an “Authoritarian Environment”? China Versus the West

Larry Romanoff • December 31, 2019

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One day in Rome, I asked the policeman, “Is it okay if I park my car here, partially blocking the emergency entrance to the hospital? I just want to go across the street for a coffee for a few minutes.” And he said, “Sure, but leave the keys in it in case I have to... Read More

Seeking Truth from PISA Facts

Testing Chinese and American Kids

Godfree Roberts • December 5, 2019

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Every three years the OECD tests fifteen year-olds around the world in reasoning and self-expression. China, aspiring to join the OECD club of developed nations, entered seven regions with a total population of 250 million–Beijing, Shanghai, and Jiangsu, Zhejiang, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan–and the results from the most recent tests were released this week.... Read More

Above, modern China, and a homeless camp in San Francisco

October Diary: China Rising, America (And Christianity) Declining; FORBES's Misleading Advice to Girl Backpackers; Etc.

John Derbyshire • November 3, 2019

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I spent most of September in China, so last month's diary was all China, China, China. This month's won't be; but I do have a few afterthoughts to record. A few days after I returned, just when I thought I'd gotten China out of my system and was ready to concentrate on America and her... Read More

US-China "Trade" War? No Way. Only the Defeat of Turbo-Capitalism!

Andre Vltchek • October 17, 2019

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It is very popular these days to talk and write about the “trade war” between the United States and China. But is there really one raging? Or is it, what we are witnessing, simply a clash of political and ideological systems: one being extremely successful and optimistic, the other depressing, full of dark cynicism and... Read More

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