NEW YORK – Never before in US political history has the whole of the American business community—more than thirty major business organizations—spoke with one voice as it did in an August 5 appeal to the Biden administration to eliminate tariffs on imports from China. No entities in American politics are timider than business lobbies, most […]
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China seeks opportunity in crisis in Afghanistan – Vijay Prashad Asia Times
On July 28 in Tianjin, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with a delegation from Afghanistan. The leader of the delegation was Mullah Abdul Ghani Baradar, the co-founder of the Taliban and head of its political commission. The Taliban have been making significant territorial gains as the US military withdraws from Afghanistan. During the meeting, […]
US falling further behind China in STEM PhDs – Scott Foster Asia Times
TOKYO – In an earlier article, “China-US contest will come down to education“, I wrote about the crisis in American primary and secondary education. As promised then, this article addresses the relative decline of American universities in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and mathematics. This change is not readily apparent. A large share of […]
G7 meet underscores fault lines on China
The Group of Seven (G7) has come a long way since its inception in the mid-1970s at the initiative of then-French president Valéry Giscard d’Estaing and West German chancellor Helmut Schmidt to discuss the world economy and consult on an international economic policy following the first oil shock and the collapse of the Bretton Woods […]



