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Thailand and NZ press on amid tariff turmoil
Anucha Charoenpo, Published on 11/04/2025
» Thailand and New Zealand have agreed to strengthen bilateral trade ties in all aspects through existing frameworks amid global trade challenges, which include the threat of high reciprocal tariffs in the United States.
China hawk Peter Navarro has Trump’s ear
AFP, Published on 09/04/2025
» WASHINGTON - President Donald Trump's punishing tariffs on countries around the world, including 104% in duties on China, bear the fingerprint of Peter Navarro, a Harvard-trained economist who has long warned against a rising Beijing.
Asia must unite to survive Trump 2.0
Oped, Lee Jong-wha, Published on 01/04/2025
» US President Donald Trump has raised the spectre of economic and geopolitical turmoil in Asia. While individual countries have few options for pushing back against Mr Trump's transactional diplomacy, protectionist trade policies, and erratic decision-making, a unified region has a fighting chance.
The tyranny of anarchy and what to do
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 21/03/2025
» It is both exciting and alarming to be a student of international affairs as the world is being turned upside down. In just two months, the second administration of President Donald J Trump has sent shockwaves rippling through the international system as the United States pulls back from its role as leader, underwriter, and guardian of the nearly 80-year-old international order that it instrumentally constructed after WWII. In view of the US's portentous withdrawal, relative anarchy in the international system is back with a vengeance, leaving Asean members and smaller states elsewhere to fend for themselves in a self-help geostrategic environment.
Threatened by US, Canada hugs France and Britain close
AFP, Published on 17/03/2025
» MONTREAL - With Canada's economy and even sovereignty under unprecedented threat from its southern neighbour the United States, its new leader has embarked on a trans-Atlantic trip to strengthen ties with traditional friends France and Britain.
Smart geopolitics starts on home front
Oped, Thitinan Pongsudhirak, Published on 21/02/2025
» According to a longstanding axiom, all politics is local. If so, then smart and crafty geopolitics must start at home with sufficient domestic political stability and consensus about how the country should navigate what is increasingly a turbulent geostrategic chessboard. Put this way, few countries can appreciate the intersection of geopolitics and domestic politics more than Thailand. Its rocky and volatile home front over the past two decades continues to impede and constrain its geostrategic projection.
Trump policies to fuel gold price surge
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 21/01/2025
» Gold prices are expected to surge by more than 6% over the next three months following the inauguration of Donald Trump as US president, reflecting uncertainties surrounding US economic and political policies, local traders say.
Tisco upbeat on outlook for trio of Asian bourses
Business, Nuntawun Polkuamdee, Published on 14/01/2025
» Tisco Bank has identified India, Vietnam and Japan as the three standout stock markets to help investors achieve attractive returns amid global trade tensions, particularly once US president-elect Donald Trump takes office next week.
Britain joins trans-Pacific pact in biggest post-Brexit trade deal
Published on 15/12/2024
» LONDON - Britain officially became the 12th member of a trans-Pacific trade pact which includes Japan, Australia and Canada on Sunday as it seeks to deepen ties in the region and build its global trade links after leaving the European Union.
Tariffs ‘could affect 25% of Thai exports to US’
Somruedi Banchongduang, Published on 22/11/2024
» Thai exports to the United States are expected to be the most seriously affected in Southeast Asia based on potential US tariff increases, as Thailand has a significant share of trade with the US, according to ttb analytics.