Published 13/07/2018
Until recently, some thought President Trump’s trade rhetoric was sabre-rattling for the political base at home.
Trump lets slip, then pulls back, the trade dogs of war. Whatever next?
Trump’s trade dogs of war, Published 22/05/2018
In Julius Caesar,
Trade war salvos have ominous implications
10/04/2018
Trade war salvos have ominous implications
At the Boao Forum in China today,
Continuity underlines most 2018 predictions: how realistic is that?
As punditry goes overboard this week on the 2018 outlook, what do we really know? What we should be looking for isn’t so much forecasts as discontinuities.
Chinese incidents with a sting in the tale
This year, the Party switched the focus to the struggle between still ‘inadequate and unbalanced development and the people’s ever growing needs for a better quality of life’. It has prompted China-watchers to wonder if China is now going to or will soon downgrade growth, per se, at any cost.
Carpetbaggers of Brexit
20th November 2017
They say that leaving the Single Market and Customs Union,