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May 19, 2025   The United States and China reached a tentative agreement at high-level talks in Switzerland on May 10 and 11, which included the reduction of U.S. tariffs on China from 145% to 30%. ...

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May 12, 2025   The United States and Britain have reached agreement at their tariff negotiations. While maintaining the basic 10% reciprocal tariff imposed by the U.S. Trump administration, the agre...

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April 14, 2025   While the U.S. Donald Trump administration and the Chinese Xi Jinping government are intensifying their tariff war, the situation is not necessarily in favor of the United States. T...

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April 7, 2025   U.S. President Donald Trump’s reciprocal tariff policy will come into effect on April 9. The policy represents a crude approach that sets an additional tariff rate based on the ratio...

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March 31, 2025   The U.S. Trump 2.0 administration’s high-tariff guns, including an additional 25% tariff on auto imports, are taking on the semblance of indiscriminate shooting. High tariffs are ce...

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March 10, 2025   Chinese government under Presidents Xi Jinping has made clear its policy of military buildup amid economic stagnation at the National People’s Congress (NPC), the Communist Party-le...

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March 3, 2025   U.S. President Donald Trump’s bitter clash with Ukrainian leader Volodymyr Zelensky this weekend has led to speculation that Trump will abandon Ukraine. But it is too early to conclu...

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February 17, 2025   Many analysts say the February 7 meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba and U.S. President Donald Trump was successful. But such analysis is naïve. A barrage ...

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January 27, 2025   On January 24, Bank of Japan Governor Kazuo Ueda not only raised the policy interest rate from 0.25% to 0.5%, but indicated his intention to continue the rate hike. In the backgro...

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November 18, 2024   While a high tariff policy that the second U.S. Trump administration is expected to introduce after its inauguration next January has been criticized as being likely to trigger g...

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