Trump Turns Iran Into a Global Toll Booth
Donald Trump has announced a 25% tariff on goods from any country “doing business” with Iran, the latest escalation in a campaign that is less...
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Ford’s Ghost, China’s Factory: The Capital War Moves to Europe
Ford’s Cologne plant has been welded into the Rhine’s industrial skyline since 1931, a monument to the American century, when the United States exported not...
How Washington Just Cut Beijing Out of Venezuela
The announcement was brief, deliberately blunt, and strategically revealing. Donald Trump declared that Venezuela would deliver between 30 and 50 million barrels of oil to...
Supreme Court Scepticism on Tariffs Leaves Everyone in Limbo
President Donald Trump’s fondness for sweeping tariff powers met a wall of sceptical questions at the Supreme Court on Wednesday, hinting that the justices may...
China’s Gold Play: How Bullion Helps Beijing Needle Trump—and the Dollar
The blistering rally in gold is nudging China a little closer to its long-stated ambition: a world less tethered to US-centred finance.Beijing has been stockpiling...
Trump Builds Tariff Walls, Xi Sells Through the Windows
President Xi Jinping’s export machine has ploughed through five months of Trump’s eye-watering tariffs and somehow still delivered a record $1.2 trillion trade surplus. Restrict...
How Xi and Putin Redrew the Energy Map
Donald Trump swept back into the Oval Office, promising “American energy dominance.” What he delivered instead was a circus: photo ops, tariff tantrums, and Truth...
Trump’s Tariffs Push Modi Into Xi and Putin’s Arms
It took Donald Trump’s second coming to achieve what years of border clashes, diplomatic frigidity, and mutual suspicion could not: a strategic rapprochement between India...
Trump Threatens Tariffs Over ‘Unfair’ Digital Taxes
US President Donald Trump has once again reached for his favourite blunt instrument: tariffs. This time, the United States is threatening new levies and export...