Tag Archives: economic warfare

I was just wondering a day or two ago just how long it was going to take for China to play the Apple card.Making an offer you can't refuse.Coming to your neighborhood soon: Chinese boycott of US and US boycott of Chinese goods by patriotic consumers.Zero HedgeChina Threatens Apple With "Anger And Nationalist Sentiment" If It Doesn't Share The Wealth Tyler DurdenSee alsoWhere did that technology come from?The Political Economy of DevelopmentMariana Mazzucato on the State behind trillion...

Michael Roberts reports from Brazil. The emerging economies are under the gun (of the the US).Michael Roberts BlogBrazil: austerity, debt and tradeMichael Roberts

Now that is really upping the ante on economic warfare. Its' not even disguised anymore. Ironic after Alan Greenspan let the banks "terrorize" not only Americans but the world, and Ben Bernanke did nothing about it either.AntiwarUS Imposes New Sanctions on Iran, Labels Central Bank Head a Terrorist Jason Ditz

The Sino-American "trade war" — economic warfare by another name — seems to be escalating. China is showing no signs of backing down.Zero HedgeChina Warns Trump "We Will Outlast You" As US "Significantly Escalates" Trade War Tyler Durden

Cui bono? Following the money. As that Reuters list makes even clearer than before, US economic sanctions against Russia are focused against mainly the following four categories of targets in Russia: Russian competitors to America’s largest international oil companies.… Russian competitors of Lockheed Martin and other international US weapons-firms... Russian banks that lend to those firms... Russian Government officials, and billionaires, who cooperate with Russia’s elected President,...

The gift from the US that keeps on giving.Russia FeedRussian food production BOOMING thanks to import substitutions, Western sanctions Paul

Officials at the Office of the US Trade Representative were quoted as saying the proposal identified products which “benefit from Chinese industrial policies, including Made in China 2025.” According to research from investment bank Natixis, released Wednesday, more than two thirds of the items targeted by the tariffs are listed in the Made in China 2025 strategy, which outlines how China intends to move up the economic value chain by investing in strategic technologies. China’s plan to...

The record of economic sanctions in forcing political change is dismal, but as a way of reducing a country to poverty and misery it is difficult to beat. UN sanctions were imposed against Iraq from 1990 until 2003. Supposedly, it was directed against Saddam Hussein and his regime, though it did nothing to dislodge or weaken them: on the contrary, the Baathist political elite took advantage of the scarcity of various items to enrich themselves by becoming the sole suppliers.… There is...

Short and significant.Russia Feed.One third of Russian currency assets are in the US – what if Washington freezes them?Dmitriy Sudakov

The Russian government is convinced that US sanctions are aimed at regime change in Russia.RT US sanctions aimed at turning business elite against Putin before election – KremlinSee also RT's Capitol press credentials cancelled.Sputnik InternationalRussia Hysteria: US Congress Revokes RT’s Capitol Hill Press Credentials