Commodities
Donald Trump proudly told Americans that his tariffs would “Make America Great Again”, promising a manufacturing boom just like the post-World War II “Golden Age”(1948-1973). It really happens – in China. As the U.S. continues dreaming, Chinese industrial production broke records this year as its factories churned out more cars, machinery and chemicals than ever before. […]
... written on Dec 09 2025Emerging from their first face-to-face meeting in six years, U.S. President Donald Trump and China President Xi Jinping appears to have reached a temporary truce in the trade war between the two economic superpowers. But all analysts believe that the Chinese leader walked out of the meeting with a new image – a leader of […]
... written on Oct 31 2025Donald Trump was shocked, angry and speechless, but also powerless at the same time when China tightened restrictions on rare-earth exports this month. It was a counterstrike which the White House didn’t expect largely due to the perception that the Chinese were always inferior and highly depended on the U.S. and its allies. After all, Beijing has […]
... written on Oct 23 2025On Friday (October 10), Trump announced that the United States would slap additional 100% tariffs on all Chinese imports from November 1. Angrily, he also threatens to put export controls on critical software and to pull out of a meeting with China’s President Xi Jinping. However, residents of Beijing reacted with indifference and defiance the […]
... written on Oct 12 2025Andrew Streff, just like other American soybean farmers, is in panic mode as he harvests what is expected to be a bumper crop without his biggest customer – China. He said – “China hasn’t purchased any soybeans from the United States this year, thanks to the president. Our beans are the cheapest in the world, […]
... written on Oct 10 2025Wannabe “Robin Hood” Anwar Ibrahim proudly announced during his Budget 2025 speech last October that subsidies for RON95 fuel would be cut for Malaysians in the top 15% (T15) of the country’s income group. The plan was to save about RM8 billion annually as Malaysia currently spends about RM20 billion a year on fuel subsidies enjoyed […]
... written on Sep 25 2025As Chinese leader Xi Jinping, Russian President Vladimir Putin, and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi were seen chatting and laughing at the second day of the Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) summit in the Chinese port city of Tianjin, many wonders exactly what jokes the three powerful world leaders were sharing. The joke on social […]
... written on Sep 02 2025While Washington and Beijing have reached an agreement to de-escalate trade tensions, temporarily lowering tariffs to 30% on the United States’ side and 10% on China’s part, the tariff war between the world’s two biggest economies isn’t going to disappear anytime soon. At the centre of the problem is President Donald Trump’s inability to accept […]
... written on Aug 26 2025Putin would face a “rough situation” if he did not co-operate in the peace process, while Zelensky had to “show some flexibility”. As for European leaders, they better move towards a deal as they wouldn’t necessarily get similar security guarantees on Ukraine from any future administration. That was roughly what Trump told all the parties involved in the […]
... written on Aug 20 2025Jensen Huang, CEO of chip designer Nvidia, has been working tirelessly for months behind the scenes in both Washington and Beijing for the sake of billions of dollars in future revenue from the ongoing U.S.-China trade war. After all, China is a huge market. Nvidia generated US$17 billion in revenue from China in the fiscal year ending January […]
... written on Aug 13 2025
