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Something good actually happened: Trump lifts tariffs on Mexico, Canada

    Free trade supporters and internationalists got a glimmer of hope this week with U.S. President Donald Trump’s decision to lift tariffs on steel and aluminum from Mexico and Canada. So will the rest of the world please start making sense now? We can only hope!     Trump originally imposed the tariffs in […]

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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 […]

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“They Are Losing Their Faith That The EU Is Still About Freedom And Hope”

Bui   By Erik Sass TES Editor   The alarm bells are ringing, but will EU officials in Brussels wake up before it’s too late? Alas, probably not. A rising tide of discontent in Eastern Europe over protectionism, income inequality, unchecked immigration and overregulation threaten to undermine the region’s adhesion to the European Union, jeopardizing […]

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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 […]