Tag Archives: Sino-American rivalry

The first is a should-read. The second is a backgrounder.Asia TimesSun Tzu and the Art of Fighting a Trade War From Baltic Sea to Black Sea, Russia aims for a win-win Pepe Escobar

Chinese handcuffs part 2: the risk of military conflict Authored by Michael Cembalest, JPMorgan Chairman of Market and Investment Strategy, via LinkedIn.com, Zero HedgeJPMorgan On The Risk Of Military Conflict With China

The tariff tussle that began today is linked to Beijing's ambitious 'Made in China 2025' and Belt and Road strategies, which will transform the global economic and geopolitical landscape; this rivalry could last for decades, some experts have said. First "shots" fired in the Thucydides trap that seems to be springing? Will the struggle for dominance be over quickly, or last perhaps for the rest of the century? Asia TimesTariffs ‘kick off 50-year trade war’ with China Pepe Escobar See...

Indeed, the real issue ahead is the battle for trade and investment globally between China and the US. The US is out to curb and control China’s ability to expand domestically and globally as an economic power. At the workshop, Jude Woodward, author of The US vs China: Asia’s new cold war?, outlined the desperate measures that the US is taking to try to isolate China, block its economic progress and surround it militarily. But this policy is failing. Trump may have launched his tariff...

U.S. Defense Secretary James Mattis warned Saturday there could be an aggressive U.S. response to China's military presence in the South China Sea. Mattis warned there could be "much larger consequences" in the future from China's installation of weapons on disputed islands, the Wall Street Journal reported.... UPIMattis warns of future aggression to Chinese militarization Sommer Brokaw See also Adam Garrie, a political writer and activist, made the remarks in reaction to US President...

"Them's fighting' words."China responds to President Trump's gonzo policy making.Trade war in the cards? Or is this just part of the negotiating process?Whatever, it's further evidence that America cannot be trusted to keep its word.ReutersChinese state media slam U.S. trade announcement, say Beijing ready to fightSee also China will double down to make breakthroughs in core technologies, Chinese President Xi Jinping said on Monday as he urged the country’s top scientists and engineers to...

Spoiler: 2038 or before. If the world is still around then.Zero HedgeHere's When China Will Win The Arms Race With The US, And How BofA Is Trading It Tyler Durden

If Trump’s trade policy toward US allies is ‘phony’, by seeking only token adjustments to trade relations, then the US trade offensive targeting China is for real. While Trump has repeatedly exempted US allies from tariffs (steel and aluminum), pitched ‘softball’ deals (South Korea), and tweeted repeatedly how well negotiations are going with NAFTA, in stark contrast the actions and words of the US toward China and trade negotiations in progress have been ‘hardball’. Jack Rasmus looks at...

US getting feisty. The Chinese: "Butt out."Zero HedgeWhite House Threatens Beijing With "Consequences" Should Missiles Remain In South China Sea Tyler Durden

It's not only a clash of systems, capitalism vs socialism, but also a clash of civilizations, Western bourgeois liberalism vs Chinese technocracy. SSince the world's largest economy comes to dominate geopolitically, only one system is viable in the final analysis (although China claims that other systems can co-exist).As China rises this clash will only intensify until one hegemon wins. The US sees the window of opportunity closing, while China realizes that time is on its side.This leads...