Expanding the Suez Canal: The Authoritarian's Task

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Sinking cash into the cash cow: expanding the Suez Canal. Authoritarian regimes are drawn to massive infrastructure projects like Americans ... Continue reading →

Nuclear Option: UK Says Kick Russia Out of SWIFT

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To be cut off from SWIFT is to be cut off from international finance. Here we go again: a few months ago I wrote about Western powers havin... Continue reading →

Big Casket & US Protectionism vs. PRC-Made Coffins

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Caskets--where China has made limited inroads into the US market. Make what you will of this rather morbid feature, but among the few things... Continue reading →

A $465B Fight: On PRC Purging US IT Firms

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Bye-bye, Big Blue...in China? I've posted about China's efforts to encourage government agencies and state-owned enterprises to ... Continue reading →

From New Cold War to Trade War: Russia at the WTO

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Well don't you worry about the situation... To paraphrase Carl von Clausewitz, trade war is Cold War by other means. Everything old is ... Continue reading →

EU-Canada FTA as a Precursor to an EU-US Deal

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European activists believe stopping Canada precedes stopping America. It appears that the EU-Canada FTA, a.k.a. the Comprehensive Economic a... Continue reading →

APEC Vaporware: Free Trade Area of the Asia-Pacific

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Put 'er there, pal, put 'er there (which is precisely nowhere). This is a quick interjection since I've already made a lengthier... Continue reading →

APEC Fight Club, US v China, FTAAP Edition

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APEC, where Pacific Rim leaders play fancy dress...and that's about it. The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is rightly regarded... Continue reading →

BRICS Fight, Brazil v PRC: 'Valemax' Cargo Ships

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Frank, it's the big hit...the mothership ! [ Captain Beefheart ] The height of the pre-global financial crisis frenzy was manic not just... Continue reading →

USA vs Russia: Real Victims are the Chickens

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The victims we know so well / They shine in your eyes when they kiss and tell. The main difficulty for the United States in applying trade ... Continue reading →

Cultural Revolution 2: PRC Targets Apple, Mercedes-Benz

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Begone ye foul capitalist roaders; the second Cultural Revolution has begun. I have written a lot--far too much for my tastes--about recent ... Continue reading →

PRC Jihad vs US Tech: Norton, Kaspersky Banned

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Battling the evil empire of US technology. There's more fun news suggesting a further escalation of China's tech jihad against Ameri... Continue reading →

In Memoriam: Japan's Export Champion Days

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 In times past, there was an entire economic school of thought essentially based on "being like Japan." We called it export-led in... Continue reading →

Latin Victimhood: From Depedencia to Suarez the Biter

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Adidas takes the trophy for World Cup 2014's most horrendously prescient ad campaign . Last year, Luis Suarez hit the headlines when he... Continue reading →

How Large is the Domestic Footprint of MNCs?

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The answer is "not much." There's a very interesting thing going on worldwide as Western stock indices hit all-new highs week ... Continue reading →

Yanks Say: World Needs Less America But More Trade

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The United States has the reverse Midas touch: everything it touches turns into, well, garbage alike its near-zero growth jokeonomy. After ... Continue reading →

Japan's Kei Cars & Idiotic US Trade Complaints

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 Adorable Chuki feels bad when meanies call her a "non-tariff barrier" [ sniff ]. So the gifted orator (or BS artist depending on ... Continue reading →

Asia Fun Club: PRC Seizes Japanese Cargo Ship

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The Japanese have literally been, ah, Shanghaied . Us Asians generally have a longer-term perspective than Americans (whose planning horizon... Continue reading →