Is the Fed caving to the demands of the market?
Distant thunder rumbles when ‘recession’ creeps back into America’s vocabulary
China
Thursday
Friday
Maybe it’s time to accept that Huawei is a Chinese intelligence front
The telecoms giant is caught up in another spying scandal
Tuesday
From the archives: Peregrine Worsthorne on Bush 41
‘On opening my bag, I found a bottle of Jack Daniels with a note from the future President of the US’
Saturday
The US and China are headed for a showdown. Do the American people care?
Tensions can spawn a crisis when you least expect them
Saturday
Peter Navarro slams Wall Streeters as ‘foreign agents’ hindering the White House
Factionalism within the White House itself and in-fighting over Washington’s China policy was on full display
Wednesday
The failure of globalization and the return of inflation
Globalists beware: inflation is a tax on the poor
Wednesday
How China sees the trade war
Beijing will seek friends in defence of globalisation and the other mantras Xi likes to unroll
Thursday
Australia’s choice: Chinese trade – or American security?
Only 55 per cent of Australians trust Uncle Sam to ‘act responsibly in the world’ — the lowest level recorded in polls.
Friday
The mind of Donald Trump, as explained by Anthony Scaramucci
When Anthony Scaramucci announced that he was writing a book about his time with Donald Trump, the joke was that it should be entitled ‘Ten Days That Shook the World’. This, he says, does him an injustice because he managed 11 days as White House communications director before being fired — after a lava flow … Read more
Monday
A trade war with China sounds terrifying – but the US is doing the right thing
Nobody likes the sound of trade war, and rightly so. China’s new retaliatory tariffs against US products feel like the beginning of something bad: an escalating tit-for-tat trade conflict between the world’s richest countries which could choke the global economy. But there are good reasons to think that, far from being another silly move by … Read more
Monday
Not my president: meet the Chinese students standing up to Xi Jinping
At last, some students in the West are campaigning for freedom and democracy. Following years of supposedly rad students banning pop songs about sex, and force-fielding their campuses against offensive speakers, and even expelling certain newspapers from their common rooms as if they were heretical abominations, a group of students has emerged to demand more … Read more
Monday
China vs America: the espionage story of our time
Why aren’t spy stories sexy anymore? The revelations last year that Beijing destroyed America’s espionage ring inside China a few years ago, including executing a number of US informants, got a brief flurry of attention and then subsided beneath the waves. News reports of American bureaucrats arrested for passing information to the Chinese have also barely raised … Read more
Saturday
If China backs Trump on North Korea he won’t like the quid pro quo
The first election day since Donald Trump was elected president a year ago brought a funereal mood to Washington that you could feel on the streets. The swamp, apparently, remains undrained. Elections for governor in Virginia and New Jersey and for mayor in New York City cheered the locals a bit, producing the expected victories … Read more
