... the international system, sentiments that remain true today: “There are decades where nothing happens, and there are weeks where decades happen.”
Henry Kissinger's secret visit
to China in the early 1970s was such a week when the seeds of the new world order were established, followed by China’s opening up to the world and massive economic, military and societal changes that occurred outside the memory of human beings. This change was famously observed by Chinese President Xi Jinping when he ...
Trump’s tariff hammer and the Mar-a-Lago Accord form a strategic triad—protectionism, fiscal relief, and geopolitical leverage—to reboot U.S. hegemony
Introduction
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a bold escalation in U.S. trade policy, imposing a baseline 10% tariff on all imports and a specific 20% tariff on goods from the European Union (EU), up from the previous average tariff rate of 3.5%. [
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] Framed as a countermeasure to persistent trade imbalances, this protectionist...
What kind of order is it, if it is so easy to disrupt?
The Trump administration's recent announcement of "reciprocal tariffs" has made almost all countries victims of its protectionism. As Dmitry Medvedev, deputy chairman of the Russian Security Council, said, the sweeping new tariffs plunged the global trade system into a highly challenging situation....
