By Rebecca Christie and Mathew Heim, courtesy of the Bruegel Institute The European Union, the world’s largest consumer market, needs a clearer vision for how it wants to manage competition and state subsidies affecting European markets and consumers. As business becomes ever more inter-connected, […]
Tag: GeoPolicy
U.S. energy independence won’t free it from foreign entanglements
The rise of fracking has turned the U.S. into an oil exporter and raises the possibility of total energy independence, something unthinkable two decades ago. However the potential for supplying all its own fossil fuel demand will not magically free the U.S. from […]
Watch out for Chinese interference in U.S. elections, too
While China often accuses the U.S. of interference in its internal affairs, most recently with Chinese claims of American assistance and encouragement to the Hong Kong protesters, the reverse scenario is at least as plausible warn AEI’s Zack Cooper and Laura Rosenberger in an […]
Maybe Trump doesn’t want a China trade deal, period
Conventional wisdom among economists and free traders holds that Donald Trump’s trade war with China, while perhaps justified on the grounds of numerous Chinese transgressions, has nonetheless been pursued in a muddled fashion, with no clear goal or exit strategy. But this discounts the possibility that […]
U.S. MINING “SUPER ROYALTY REFORM” WILL HAND CHINA A LOT MORE THAN RARE EARTHS FOR LEVERAGE
By Larry Reaugh, CEO, American Manganese, Inc. In my previous piece published by The Economic Standard, I recommended that the U.S. introduce “Flow-Through Funding” to kick start exploration of critical and rare earth metals, for which the U.S. is presently dependent on imports, most notably […]
The Tech Wars Heat Up: U.S. Makes National Security Declarations to Spur Rare Earths Development
By Daniel McGroarty, TES GeoPolicy Editor Forget the trade war – the tech war is heating up. After weeks of Chinese threats that it could cut off U.S. access to the essential technology materials known as rare earths, the Trump Administration today took a counter-action of its own. Jennifer […]
Deep Fake Part Deux: Meet Katie Jones, Digital Spy
By Daniel McGroarty TES GeoPolicy Editor In April, I commented on a DefenseOne article about an AI-enabled capability called GANs – generative adversarial networks – and the risk that GANs could be used to fabricate “deep fakes,” computer images planted in Google Earth, for instance, depicting geological features that don’t exist, or […]
China Is Fueling Centrifugal Forces At Its Peril
By Dr. Alexander Görlach, Senior Fellow, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs At the southern tip of the Chinese mainland lie not one but two territories in conflict with the communist leadership in Beijing: Hong Kong and Taiwan. Those who have been following the news from the region since […]
McGroarty on “60 Minutes”: Warns of China’s Stranglehold on Rare Earths (Again)
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 […]
Cheering on evil: Maduro’s American supporters
by Egoli “The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.” Edmund Burke’s words were as apt in the 1700s as they are today. As someone who witnessed weeks- long protests outside the Venezuelan embassy in Washington, DC, I might add, far less […]