Economies around the world rattled

Almost 90 years after the tit-for-tat (TFT) tariffs that defined trade restrictions during the Great Depression of the 1930s, the United States (US) and China have clamped selective reciprocal protective tariffs. It is a clash of the titans in the global economy and international trade. The clock is ticking as...

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Trump's policy in Asia

After President Trump's abandonment of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) which excluded China, his Asia policy advisers came up with a very hot new idea to extend US reach even beyond the Pacific. The policy was dubbed as "Indo-Pacific''. Indo-Pacific looked much harder to sell given that Trump was not even...

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