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Economics

The high-stakes, global battle over Trump’s tariffs

7th May 2025 shoreditchadmin2 0

Trump’s “tariff war” is an attempt to bring the entire world trading system under unilateral US control, removing any minimal element of multilateral negotiation from it.

Trump 2.0 and China – the real situation of the U.S. economy

28th March 2025 shoreditchadmin2 0

If the U.S. cannot succeed in slowing China’s economy, then it can only decrease China’s lead in growth rate by increasing the percentage of net fixed capital formation in the U.S. economy.

China’s economy in 2024 continued to far outgrow the U.S.

7th February 2025 shoreditchadmin2 0

China’s GDP growth rate in 2024 of 5.0% compares to the U.S.’s of 2.8%. China’s was therefore 80% higher than the U.S.

U.S. dooms itself to defeat in peaceful competition with China

13th May 2024 shoreditchadmin2 0

There are measures that would increase U.S. economic growth rates and competivity, but the U.S. is unwilling or unable to take them.

So-called “Peak China” is simply a Western campaign for China to commit economic suicide

26th April 2024 shoreditchadmin2 0

Despite the fact that China’s economy continues to far outgrow all major Western economies the Western media is energetically promoting a myth of “peak China”.

China’s goal of 5 percent growth in 2024 is entirely realistic

13th March 2024 shoreditchadmin2 0

The reason why some media outlets were keen to declare China’s target growth rate as unrealistically high is because achieving it will destroy the remnants of their claims of “peak China” – the idea that China’s economy has ceased to far outgrow economies in the West.

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