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Trump's China trade 'big win' will cost America
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 27/02/2019
» Donald Trump believes he is about to score yet another big win on trade, this time with China. Progress in talks with Beijing, he claims, has been so "substantial" that he's delayed a looming March 1 deadline and is likely headed for a summit with China's President Xi Jinping to finalise a long-awaited settlement.
Xi, not Trump is the true cold warrior
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 15/11/2018
» The US-China trade war is looking more and more like a cold war. President Donald Trump's tariffs, crackdown on alleged Chinese theft of American technology, and rhetoric have overturned decades of US foreign policy that had prioritised cooperation. Meanwhile, his counterpart Xi Jinping hasn't budged on any concessions. China experts worry that relations between the world's two most important countries have reached a turning point.
Xi's foreign policy requires a Confucian overhaul
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 23/07/2018
» China has suffered a series of diplomatic blows lately. Relations with the US are at a multi-decade low as a trade war escalates, and this month, Malaysia suspended four Chinese-backed projects as its prime minister tries to pull away from Beijing's orbit. From Myanmar to Sri Lanka to Vietnam, China's overseas investments are being met with backlash.
It's time to give China a taste of its own bad medicine
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 29/06/2018
» One of my mottos is: Don't criticise something unless you have a better idea. I've decried President Donald Trump's tariff tactics, so it's only fair I offer my own strategy for fighting a trade war with China -- one with a bigger chance of success and smaller downside risk.
Hard heads must prevail on N Korea
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 27/04/2018
» Hope is again rising on the Korean peninsula. Today, South Korea's President Moon Jae-in and North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un will hold a summit in the Demilitarised Zone that has divided the two states for 65 years. The meeting raises the prospect that this pointless and anachronistic conflict can finally be brought to an end, or at the very least, that the tensions now threatening global security and world financial markets can be reduced.
US cannot win a trade war by itself
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 22/03/2018
» As US President Donald Trump prepares a wide-ranging package of tariffs and investment restrictions targeted at China, a trade war between the world's two most important economies looks unavoidable. On the face of it, the US might seem to have the leverage it needs to win. Since it runs a huge trade deficit with China, the Chinese have a lot more to lose.
South Korea has some lessons Trump should heed
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 13/09/2017
» Advisers seem to have convinced US President Donald Trump not to trash the country's free-trade agreement with South Korea -- for now. Mr Trump himself still seems intent on extracting concessions from the Koreans and could yet withdraw from the deal. The irony is that, more than any other, South Korea's own story shows how foolish that would be.
South Korea's next leader must focus on growth
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 10/05/2017
» So much attention is being lavished on the nuclear-edged tantrums of Kim Jong-un in North Korea that the presidential election on the southern half of the Korean peninsula has gone practically unnoticed. But the outcome may be nearly as critical for the region's future as the fate of Mr Kim's weapons programme.
Zombie firms threaten Asia's future
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 04/04/2017
» Any horror aficionado knows that the only good zombie is a dead zombie. Don't risk trying to bring one back to life. It'll just come back to bite you.
Asia's strongmen not strong enough
News, Michael Schuman, Published on 21/02/2017
» Across Asia, the world has supposedly been witnessing the return of the strongman. Chinese President Xi Jinping has been grasping more and more control in his own hands since claiming power in 2012. Two years later, Prime Minister Narendra Modi in India and President Joko Widodo (known as "Jokowi") in Indonesia won office by selling themselves as forceful economic and political reformers. All three were heralded as the firm hands these giant developing nations needed to rejuvenate their promising but troubled economies.