The US economy has had a shining performance in the second quarter of this year. How long can it last without real policy reform?

Outlook may look less than optimal, the market shows optimistic signs ahead of the Party Congress

Nigerian and international reporting on Chinese investment in Nigeria gives the impression that Chinese companies are the largest investors in the country. However, this is not the case.

Despite the uncharacteristic competitiveness of the upcoming Kyrgyz presidential election, both candidates have similar foreign policy goals: rapprochement with Russia and deepening financial ties to China.

We stand at a crossroads. The U.S. and China can either enter a costly and damaging trade war, or they can negotiate a better alternative. Getting trade relatio

The scale of all sorts of debt in the US, including federal government debt, corporate debt, household debt, and private debt is nearing an all-time high. Evidence suggests a new debt crisis is mounting.

America stands to benefit from Trump’s tax plan, but there are significant hurdles in its way.

Trade imbalance has been an ongoing source of tension between the U.S. and China. According to U.S. statistics, U.S. trade deficit with China in 2016 amounted to $347 billion, or 47% of its total deficit in merchandise trade.

It seems as if U.S. President Donald Trump is intent on perpetrating a dangerous fallacy: to impose tariffs on American imports to lower the trade deficit. These moves are coming despite the fact that the most prominent critic of China’s trade practices in the U.S. administration, Steven Bannon, has left the White House. Why is the Trump administration so enamored by tariffs, a trade policy more commonly employed a hundred years ago?

For more than a decade, China and the United States have been engaged in a game of tit-for-tat technology protectionism, which now threatens to escalate into a wider high-tech trade war. But protectionism need not be met with protectionism. There is another route to deescalate this conflict: via the World Trade Organization.