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AI is a Perfect Storm Threatening Humanity
© Getty Images/XH4D The global economy was already navigating a minefield of volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and ambiguity (VUCA) when US President Donald J. Trump’s ‘Liberation Day’ tariffs reverberated across international markets. This aggressive escalation of trade barriers, including a mélange of sudden rate hikes, retaliatory measures, and rhetorical brinkmanship, didn’t just amplify the chaos; it […]
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What Lies behind Nvidia’s Commitment to “unswervingly serving the Chinese market”
Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang, who has visited China again three months after his trip in January, recently publicly stated that the company would “unswervingly serve the Chinese market” and emphasized China’s key role in the global supply chain. He said Nvidia has grown together with the Chinese market and achieved mutual success. Against the backdrop […]
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Donald Trump and Depression Economics
Somewhere in the universe is a man known as Donald Trump. He has residences in New York, Palm Beach, Florida, and a white columned house at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington, D.C. From these well-furnished bungalows, where supplicants meet to greet, monarch butterfly Trump governs his territory ─ planet earth. When the monarch desires a change […]
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“Quantitative Easing with Chinese Characteristics”
China went from one of the poorest countries in the world to global economic powerhouse in a mere four decades. Currently featured in the news is DeepSeek, the free, open source A.I. built by innovative Chinese entrepreneurs which just pricked the massive U.S. A.I. bubble. Even more impressive, however, is the infrastructure China has built, including 26,000 […]
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Ungrateful Lying Upstarts
Orientation Situating my article Often the rise of China and the Middle East appears to many Westerners as something recent, maybe 30 years old. Before that? Is Western dominance beginning with the Greeks and Romans – right? Wrong, not even close! The rise of the East and the South has roughly a 1,300 year history […]
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Multipolar World Order, Leading Role of Emerging Economies, and Western Debt: Key Takeaways from Putin’s BRICS Address
President of Russia Vladimir Putin during an expanded meeting of BRICS leaders during the 16th BRICS summit in Kazan. © Sputnik / Stanislav Krasilnikov Russian President Vladimir Putin addressed a meeting of leaders at the BRICS Summit in Kazan on Wednesday. In his speech, he focused on the growing role and prospects of the economic […]
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The Retreat of Free Trade
Free markets? Free trade? The modern economic world has little time for these erroneous, misdirected terms. More evident are the feelings of resentment, prejudice and indignant parochialism more accurately called My Country First, and Everyone Else Last. Back your industries; hobble the competitors. And everyone is doing it, except certain ideologues who, childishly, cling to […]
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Following US’ Protectionist Policies, Canada is Shooting Itself in the Foot
Illustration: Chen Xia/GT On the political stage, Canada often seems to trail behind the US. After the US government’s announcement in May of imposing high tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EV) and steel, the Canadian government has now decided to follow suit. On Monday, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Ottawa would impose a 100 […]
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Holistic vs Analytical Thinking
Orientation How much do left brain pathologies have to do with culture and geography? Recently I was interviewed by Jeff J. Brown on China Rising about an article I wrote titled “The Dark Side of Left-Brain Operations”. During the interview, I contrasted the differences between the functions the left and the right sides of the brain. […]
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Is the Reign of the Dollar Coming to an End?
Jiang Tiefeng (China), Stone Forest, 1979. In early June, a rumour began to circulate – which was widely reported in the Indian press as true – that the government of Saudi Arabia had allowed its petrodollar agreement with the United States to lapse. This agreement, made in 1974, is quite straight-forward and fulfills various needs […]
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