
Tag: china

I am not usually one to give credit to the Chinese government. But hey….. The global cryptocurrency industry’s latest meltdown has prompted fresh warning in China that the value of bitcoin cou
Dayen has a good piece on the complex politics of the solar energy industry and how despite how it initially looks, it is essentially beholden to the Chinese. The Solar Energy Industries Association i

Another good move from the Biden administration to enforce laws against slave labor making products for import: U.S. officials have begun blocking the import of solar panels that they believe could be
Alex Cooley and I published a piece at Foreign Affairs which discusses how international order is becoming more or less “liberal” across three dimensions: political rights, economic arrang

Sometimes the best way to compete is… not to bother. As Alex Cooley and I argue in a new piece over at The National Interest, Washington can afford to chill out a bit when it comes to challenges
At least, that’s the conclusion of an interesting piece in Bloomberg News. The deficit did fall year-on-year in 2019, as U.S. companies switched to imports from countries like Vietnam, but

Jeffery Stacey and I have a new piece in Foreign Affairs called “Fear of Trump’s Populism Might Save American Alliances.” Our basic argument is that: Biden cannot easily undo this damage
Yes, I’m still alive. Alex and I are speaking at noon (ET) today, “at” the Hertie School “in” Berlin. It’s open to the public. It’s an iteration of the book t
- Whaddaya gonna do?
- Hoist by their own pseudo-scandal
- Democracy dies in triflin’ editorial and layout decisions
- True Believer: The Rise and Fall of Stan Lee by Abraham Riesman
- The 12 stations of the grift
- Could Taco Bell Fail in Mexico?
- Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 1,172
- Questions and Answers
- The surveillance techniques that will be used to prosecute women and girls for medically-induced abortions
- Also too, if the FBI says they found anything they’re making it up, and if they then produce it they planted it