Ahead of a possible meeting between presidents Xi Jinping and Donald Trump, business analyst Shaun Rein, author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order, is explaining how the US is boosting China’s stature globally. The US is losing its former friends in Australia, Canada, and Europe, while domestically, inflation is killing the US economy through a trade war with China, he tells at Moats.Read More →

Business analyst Shaun Rein clashes at North Meridian with former Trump ambassador to Denmark Carla Sands on what Trump is achieving on China, Trump’s trade strategy, Taiwan, Iran, and whether Washington still has the leverage over Beijing that it thinks it does. Rein is the author of The Split: Finding the Opportunities in China’s Economy in the New World Order.Read More →

Ian Johnson, author of China’s Underground Historians and their Battle for the Future and founder and director of China Unofficial Archives, discusses critical issues facing China at the Fairbank Center for Chinese Studies at Harvard University. “Reclaiming Historical Memory and the Struggle for China’s Future”.Read More →

China, Africa, and the US are pretty different bedfellows when it comes to trade, says political analyst Harry Broadman to Al Jazeera. China seems to have a better understanding of Africa, where the US was in the past mainly focused on opening the African markets for its own benefit, he adds.Read More →