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Our Fake President and China’s Codependency Trap

Our Fake President and China’s Codependency Trap

❝ Seemingly at odds with the world, US President Donald Trump has once again raised the possibility of a trade conflict with China. On August 14, he instructed the US Trade Representative to commence investigating Chinese infringement of intellectual property rights. By framing this effort under Section 301 of the US Trade Act of 1974, the Trump administration could impose high and widespread…

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Beijing has spent billions expanding its ports network to secure sea lanes and establish itself as a maritime power

Most vettem észre,hogy nem tettem ki ezt a cikket, pedig elég érdekes. Leginkább azért, mert végre van benne egy fasza térkép az egészről. Ami viszont még érdekesebb,ha hozzá veszük ezt a cikket. Amiben meg kifejtik, hogyan is működik a kínai külpolitikában a stratégiai övezetek létrehozása és ebben is szerepel Gwadar kikötője, ami tulajdonképpen az egyiklegfontosabb kikötő.Viszont ne álljunk meg itt. Mert közben Trump felmondta a TPP-t, amiről itt van ez a cikk, ami arról szól, hogy ezzel hogyan adott teret Kínának a térségben. Ez pedig azt a folyamatot fogja elindítani, ami az előző cikkben van. Izgi évek elébe nézünk.

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TPP -- The secret corporate takeover

TPP — The secret corporate takeover

Joseph Stiglitz, Nobel Laureate The United States and the world are engaged in a great debate about new trade agreements. Such pacts used to be called “free-trade agreements”; in fact, they were managed trade agreements, tailored to corporate interests, largely in the US and the European Union. Today, such deals are more often referred to as “partnerships,”as in the Trans-Pacific Partnership…

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Inequality, Immigration, and Hypocrisy

Inequality, Immigration, and Hypocrisy

Europe’s migration crisis exposes a fundamental flaw, if not towering hypocrisy, in the ongoing debate about economic inequality. Wouldn’t a true progressive support equal opportunity for all people on the planet, rather than just for those of us lucky enough to have been born and raised in rich countries?

Many thought leaders in advanced economies advocate an entitlement mentality. But the…

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Shiller praises Piketty's contribution to a debate - and responds

Shiller praises Piketty’s contribution to a debate – and responds

Thomas Piketty’s impressive and much-discussed book Capital in the Twenty-First Century has brought considerable attention to the problem of rising economic inequality. But it is not strong on solutions. As Piketty admits, his proposal – a progressive global tax on capital (or wealth) – “would require a very high and no doubt unrealistic level of international cooperation.”

We should not be…

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Should We Talk About Race and Intelligence? by Peter Singer

Should We Talk About Race and Intelligence? by Peter Singer

Should We Talk About Race and Intelligence? by Peter Singer WWW.PROJECT-SYNDICATE.ORG

The intersection of genetics and intelligence is an intellectual minefield. Harvard’s former president Larry Summers touched off one explosion in 2005 when he tentatively suggested a genetic explanation for the difficulty his university had in recruiting female professors in math and physics. (He did not…

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