The U.S. had plenty of warning about China’s dominant position in the production of rare earths, elements key to the manufacturing of smartphones, and a wide range of defense technologies – not that anyone paid attention. This week TES GeoPolicy Editor Dan McGroarty was featured for the second time on “60 Minutes,” explaining […]
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U.S. consumers paying price for tariffs
Donald Trump’s decision to escalate the trade war with China is counter-productive, harmful to American consumers, and could even derail the stock market, argues Young Voices contributor Charlie Gers in his recent op-ed in The OC Register. Gers notes the results of a recent report from a raft of economists warning […]
North America trade harmony would bolster U.S. in China trade war
TES GeoPolicy Editor Daniel McGroarty, a former White House staffer and congressional expert on resource and defense issues, argues in The Hill that a return to harmony in North American trade pacts would strengthen Donald Trump’s hand in ongoing U.S.-China trade talks. It also puts the U.S. in a better position to handle […]
Resource Wars: Can the U.S. Lose a War it Hasn’t Fought?
By Daniel McGroarty TES GeoPolicy Editor “A fight between the United States and China is brewing over 5G and the question of who can be trusted to control the world’s wireless infrastructure. But scant attention is being paid to an issue of arguably greater importance to the future of the world’s economy and […]
Are we ready for a world of AI “deep fakes?”
By Daniel McGroarty TES GeoPolicy Editor “Ceci n’est pas une pipe.” The iconic impact of Rene Magritte’s most-posterized work is due not to the painting itself, but to the sophomoric witticism in the subscript: It is a painting of a pipe, and not the pipe itself. But that’s not the painting’s […]
FLASHPOINT: South China Sea from Jaw-Jaw to War-War?
By Daniel McGroarty GeoPolicy, Defense Editor Don’t make those travel plans just yet: The much-awaited Trump-Xi trade “summit” seems to be sailing deeper into calendar 2019, with word over the past 24 hours (Reuters) that the meet “won’t happen in March,” may “push into April” (Breitbart), or “may be pushed back to June” (South […]
SoftBank’s Gravity Warping Value, Expectations
Henny Sender in the FT: SoftBank and its $70 billion-in Vision Fund are privately hyperfinancing start-ups, they argue, to spur rapid growth and occasionally to beat their chests. These well-intended torrents of cash have created a bubble in the tech sector, widening the gap between massive private and modest public valuations. The […]
The South China Sea, a UK interest?
The Henry Jackson Society explains why the South China Sea, where the Royal Navy has recently conducted freedom of navigation operations, remains a vital British interest.