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The end of the big trade deals nears
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 23/11/2016
» US president-elect Donald Trump announced yesterday that he will cancel the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade deal on his first day in office (Jan 20). That will kill the TPP off for all 12 countries that agreed on it just over a year ago: as Japan's Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, the TPP would be meaningless without the involvement of the US. But then, it was pretty meaningless even with US involvement.
What the Global South thinks of the Ukraine war
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 28/04/2023
» There is a deep and growing rift between "the West" and "the Rest" about the need to resist and defeat the Russian invasion of Ukraine. This is because it is really a war in defence of sovereignty, which ought to be something every sovereign country can buy into -- but Western governments publicly insist that it is a war in defence of democracy.
Will China actually ever invade Taiwan?
Oped, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 13/10/2021
» China's President Xi Jinping promised on Saturday that "The historical task of the complete reunification of the motherland... will definitely be fulfilled." That was a threat to Taiwan, but a threat without a deadline. However Chinese state media, in the form of the ever-rabid Global Times, warned that war "could be triggered at any time".
Is 2016 the new 1936?
News, Gwynne Dyer, Published on 17/08/2016
» Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce -- Karl Marx, 1852.