The spiral of inflation, a slip in GDP, and rising costs of living are challenges that the Biden administration needs to deal with urgently. As such, some decisive measures need to be taken which should put America’s true interests first.
Despite the unprecedented disruption posed by the war in Ukraine on European politics, Macron retains an important influence over the bigger picture.
If the U.S. is looking for a result-orientated policy, then it should seek to negotiate a win-win trade arrangement with China that can better attain access to its domestic market while removing the politically toxic Trump tariffs.
Macron’s domestic task in the next five years will be tough and challenging. Economic problems for ordinary citizens and the pandemic ought to be his focus.
America’s contemporary attitude to the world is driven by insecurity ignited by a perceived loss of status to others, which in turn has undermined its ability to reason and, therefore, is at risk of turning the world back towards a divided Cold War environment.
When the U.S. has a government that refuses to take responsibility and a legal system that stifles public health measures, there is nowhere to turn for the people who want to remain safe in a pandemic.
There is no reason to assume the economic losses from this period will be permanent. Despite the challenges ahead, the data for Q1 have ultimately shown the fundamentals of China’s economy are strong and moving in the right direction.
The tight-fisted decision to undermine the global vaccine campaign is as short-sighted for Americans as it is greedy.
According to the World Values Survey, 13% of Americans often or sometimes ‘feel unsafe from crime in your own home,’ higher than China, South Korea, Singapore, Germany, Japan, Canada, and many other countries.
What is freedom worth if there is no guarantee of life or protection? Ultimately, the U.S. is using talk of human rights and its own mythology of exceptionalism as a cover for its agenda of seeking hegemony.
In every capacity, Hainan’s economy is being refashioned to integrate itself with a broader geographic area and to transform it into a hub and a gateway to China as well as the countries around it.
China and the EU do not envisage a world where their differences would cease to exist. What they are striving to achieve is a framework of common understanding that will allow synergies towards common prosperity.
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