Escalating tensions between Washington and Beijing do not yet constitute a new cold war. But they signal an important shift in US policy. From the 1990s—orchestrating China’s entry into the WTO, guaranteeing its dollar assets at the peak of the financial crisis—the emphasis had been on (...)
Prefatory Note:The following post contains my responses to questions posed by Sputnik News Agency a few days ago. The effort to warn European countries not to use equipment from the Chinese telecom giant, Huawei, is part warning and part threat. It claims to be a matter of security, but seems (...)
Sharp divisions emerge at Port Moresby summit as Japan and US push back against China’s growing influence in the Pacific.
The Apec summit has been unable to produce a joint communique because of tensions between the US and China over trade and security issues which flared throughout the (...)
In the logistics industry, from port workers to truckers to delivery drivers, time is of the essence. Their potential control over that time gives workers enormous leverage in the global economy.
Today’s global economy relies on the steady flow of goods, products, and raw materials around the (...)
The BRICS bloc starts with rhetoric about an ‘alternative’ to Western hegemony and ends up amplifying neoliberal capitalism instead.
Can the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) bloc rise to the occasion, as Donald Trump jerks Western imperialism out of traditional alignments? With (...)
A new age of debt crises in emerging economies is on the horizon. Debt levels have been rising across developing countries since the 2008 global financial crisis, on the back of favourable monetary policies in developed economies.
A new report from the Netherlands think tank SOMO analyses the (...)
American protectionism, under Donald Trump’s “America First”, is creating and accelerating deep global shifts that are threatening the global trade, investment and financial regime that the US built and has benefited from over the last four decades.
In Trump’s mind, the supposed partners and (...)
Trump’s conflict with Canada and European countries over trade grabbed headlines during the G7 summit, but there are deeper factors involved, writes Lee Sustar.
SMACKING DOWN Canada while wooing North Korea may appear to be just another example of the impulsive behavior a man singularly (...)
There is money to be made. But not by the people who live on the ground above the oil.
Stock markets are aflame. Not only have the main indices for oil prices – Brent Crude and West Texas Intermediate – leapt closer and closer to the $100/barrel price, but the long-term indices have also made (...)
In May the EU brought in new regulations to control how organisations can use your data. You might be sick of the re-subscribe emails you’re getting from everyone, but these new rules are aimed at forcing all organisations to gain genuine consent to use your personal information. They introduce (...)
On the occasion of the publication of the report Transnational Corporations and Land speculation in Brazil by Rede Social de Justiça e Direitos Humanos (Network for Social Justice and Human Rights), Mary Taylor of LeftEast spoke with Fábio Pitta, Devlin Kuyek and Attila Szőcs about the broader (...)
At the beginning of March, the UN Human Rights Council met in Geneva and the Dutch Parliamentary Committee on “Foreign Trade and Development Cooperation” met in The Hague. There was one common point on these meetings’ agendas: an internationally binding UN treaty to more effectively protect (...)
The ‘new imperialism’ debate suffers from the omission of subimperialism. A review of recent analysis of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa), focusing on global governance, accumulation, class struggle and resource extractivism.
Two leading critics of imperialism (...)
For equitable growth, any discussion on e-commerce requires citizen participation, taking due account of safeguarding development, democracy and human rights. So far the digital economy has only lent itself to creating monopolies by big players.
Electronic commerce, one of the components of (...)
After years of criticism from labor unions and other progressive groups, the Bank’s own chief economist is accusing his colleagues of ideologically-driven data manipulation.
The World Bank’s chief economist has set off a firestorm over its system of assigning ratings to 190 countries’ business (...)
The movement has honourable intentions, but offers too few benefits to producers of the global south. Fairtrade is not a new economic model - it accepts the “rules of the game” and can offer only marginal benefits. Despite impressive increases in ethical consumption, the demand for fair trade (...)
October 14, 2016 — Links International Journal of Socialist Renewal — A Brazilian leader’s faux pas spoke volumes about the Brazil-Russia-India-China-South Africa (BRICS) heads of state summit underway in Goa this weekend. The country’s foreign minister (and occasional presidential candidate) José (...)
IN THE wake of the 2008 global economic crisis, capitalism regrouped as states pumped enormous amounts of money into the system to stabilize it. The result has been a relatively weak recovery—one that has failed to clear away the problems that had produced the crisis in the first place. As a (...)
APEC IS TWO WORLDS APART
The Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) is merely an economic forum yet it operates as a powerful mechanism for accelerating regional economic integration. Established in 1989, APEC serves as a venue for its 21 member economies to leverage their interdependence. (...)
JAISAL NOOR, PRODUCER, TRNN: The long-awaited text of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, or TPP, has finally been released to the public. The controversial and until now highly secretive trade pact would reduce trade barriers and transform how business is done for the twelve Pacific Rim countries (...)
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