How to Avoid Trade Wars – and World War Three
Not a day goes by without a new shock to Americans and our neighbors around the world from the Trump administration. On April 22nd, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) downgraded its forecasts…
Trump Trade War
Europe and China Must Unite Against Trump’s Trade Assault
BERLIN – US President Donald Trump’s misguided trade war against the rest of the world could mark the beginning of the end for both his political dominance and his “Make…
Will the Global Economy Stall?
ITHACA – The timing could hardly have been less propitious. Just as the world economy was showing signs of stabilizing, the odds of a policy-induced global recession have risen significantly.…
Will Trump Unite China and Europe?
ROME – With little economic or political rationale, US President Donald Trump has introduced some of the highest tariffs in more than a century, and imposed them on nearly every…
Trump’s anti-China stand: Covid-19 & Tariff-war!
During his first term in office, President Donald Trump’s anti-China policies seemed as aggressive and assertive as they are now. Paradoxically, though those centred around a totally different issue, they…
Prognosticating Trump’s tariff policy and trade war with China
Trump's attempt to pull USA out of the US laid post WWII economic order and instead take a path of isolationisn and economic protection, is perhaps the most systematic assault…
Trump’s tariffs rock US and global economy
US President Trump’s imposition of a 25 percent tariff on imports from Canada and Mexico, which came into effect on Tuesday, has sent a shock wave through the global economy…
Trump, Tariffs, and Trade Wars: The Decline of Free Trade
American imperialism has historically employed both free trade and protectionism, depending on its own needs after the Second World War. American foreign policy is also strictly embedded with American trade…
Trump launches global trade war, with Canada and Mexico as his first targets
United States President Donald Trump escalated a global trade war Saturday with executive orders imposing punitive tariffs on the country’s three largest trading partners. Starting Tuesday, the US will impose…
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