AU ELECTION: While denying supplying complete weapons, the Australian government allows exports to Israel of parts and components for weapons and equipment that are being used in the genocide in Gaza, writes Kellie Tranter.
Trump’s trade war is a class war designed to weaken progressive taxation, writes Omar Ocampo.
It’s a way to help them re-industrialize, writes Barbara Fritz, at a time when recent geopolitics have also sharpened concern about dollar dependency.
Charles Hankla says the U.S. president’s simultaneous moves — one outside international law, the other inside it — show that his approach to trade is not so much anti-establishment as it is opportunistic.
The long, dense economic relationship appears to have passed its peak, writes Patrick Lawrence.
Beijing wants to avoid an all-out trade war with Washington. That is what will count at the G-20 summit later this week, writes Patrick Lawrence, not the U.S. vice president’s hostility in Asia earlier this month.
International trade deals have lost their consensus support as more workers view them as anathema to good-paying jobs, requiring the U.S. politicians to rethink these strategies, writes Andrew Spannaus.