PRESIDENT DONALD Trump’s bullying of America’s allies and neighbours may appeal to the maga base. Unfortunately, investors feel otherwise. Confidence in the prospects for the American economy has been sapped and financial markets are sinking. The S&P 500 index of American stocks has dropped by 9% since its peak in February. Because Mr Trump’s on-again,…
THE BALL, so America’s secretary of state said on March 11th, is back in Vladimir Putin’s court. Ukraine had just agreed at talks in Jeddah to an American plan for a month-long ceasefire, and in return America has already restarted the flow of weapons and information that Donald Trump cut off following his spectacular Oval…
DONALD TRUMP’S foreign policy works on a simple formula: the more you depend on America the worse he can treat you. That is the lesson the world should take from a devastating week, which culminated in an announcement on March 2nd that America is pausing all military aid to Ukraine until it accepts Mr Trump’s…
SINCE THE early months of the war in Ukraine three long years ago, the front line on the battlefield has hardly moved. But in the Oval Office on February 28th, as Donald Trump and J.D. Vance attacked Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s defences crumbled in a few devastating minutes. Source link
DONALD TRUMP’S first two weeks in the Oval Office have featured plenty of jaw-dropping moments. Even so, his proposal of an American “takeover” of Gaza on February 4th was extraordinary. He combined sinister ideas—ethnic cleansing and a lethal indifference towards Palestinians’ rights—with unorthodox improvisation over one of the world’s most intractable problems. In his first…
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. With the Shanghai Composite Index staging an incredible rally late last month and through the beginning of…
Welcome to Your Week in Asia. Asian leaders head to the United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York, the EU holds a mid-week vote over tariffs on Chinese electric vehicles while Japan’s ruling Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) wraps up its leadership election on Friday. The corruption trial of Singapore’s former transport minister gets underway, Indonesia kicks…