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With nearly a trillion dollars worth of trade last year, U.S. companies exported more than twice to the EU what they sent to China. In 2024, the U.S. imported about US$606 billion in goods from the European Union and exported around US$370 billion. In comparison, U.S. goods imports from China totaled US$438.9 billion, while exports to […]
... written on May 26 2025On May 7, 2025, India launched “Operation Sindoor” in retaliation for a terrorist attack in Indian-administered Kashmir on April 22 that killed 26 people, mostly tourists. Sindoor – vermilion red powder – is a traditional marker applied on the foreheads of married Hindu women. The code-name was a deliberate invocation of not only grief but also memory […]
... written on May 16 2025After just two days of talks (it was not even a negotiation), an agreement – despite a 90-day validity – has been reached between the United States and China in Switzerland. The best part is President Donald Trump is still waiting for a call from President Xi Jinping. That alone speaks volumes who actually has […]
... written on May 13 2025Desperate for Chinese and Indian votes, former backdoor Prime Minister Muhyiddin Yassin has suddenly shifted his “Malay First” to “Malaysian First” stance to hoodwink non-Malay voters. On the other side, UMNO Youth Chief Akmal Saleh, desperate for Malay votes, has declared he is “Malay First” rather than “Malaysian First” in his attempt to hoodwink the […]
... written on May 08 2025China and Canada might have their own mini trade war going on, where Beijing slapped a 100% tariff on Canadian canola oil, oil cakes and pea imports, and a 25% duty on aquatic products and pork effective March 20, 2025. It was in retaliation for Canadian 100% tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles (EVs) and 25% […]
... written on May 06 2025President Donald Trump’s plate is full with problems. Last year, a survey of more than 150 historians ranked him as the worst President in the 232-year history of the United States – scored 10.92 out of 100. But his supporters, who have yet to see the consequences of Trump’s tariff war against the entire planet, would praise him as […]
... written on May 03 2025Xi Jinping’s refusal to call Donald Trump despite the White House’s begging was not the only thing that shocked the U.S. president. Other world leaders, like Malaysia Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim, who is still lobbying for his first phone call after the POTUS had calls with almost all leaders in the Southeast Asia except him, […]
... written on May 01 2025Having manufactured a tariff crisis which has backfired in his face, Donald Trump is now scrambling to manufacture a solution – without much success. Even if the U.S. president had deliberately designed the crisis with the purpose of making money through insider trading, he does not appear to have an exit strategy in the event […]
... written on Apr 26 2025Last week, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said – “The ball is in China’s court: China needs to make a deal with us, we don’t have to make a deal with them”. But the fact that Donald Trump sent her to make the statement instead of crowing it himself shows that the president was […]
... written on Apr 24 2025Japanese Yakuza have a unique form of extortion known as sōkaiya. Instead of harassing small businesses for protection money, the yakuza harasses the stockholder meetings of large corporations. But that was a big mistake, forcing the introduction of anti-organized crime law in 1992 and 2011. As a result, the mobsters were forced to go underground, […]
... written on Apr 21 2025
