BLOG Post #487: The National Security Strategy Paper on China 18 Dec 2025 The Trump administration’s National Security Strategy paper released this month is filled with nasty, nativist language and half-truths straight out of the Project 2025 playbook. But amidst the bluster about…
BLOG Post #481: No Big Deal: The Trump-Xi Meeting in Korea 3 Nov 2025 Promises, Promises The much-awaited meeting in Korea between Pres. Trump and Pres. Xi Jinping promised—according to Trump—a major trade deal. The Chinese seemed prepared to offer much less. In remarks…
BLOG Post #475: Trump Upends the International Economic Order 11 Sep 2025 Protectionism by Another Name Tariff hikes across the board, political interference through trade threats, pressure on US multinational corporations, supply chain disruptions—these are among the ways the Trump administration is…
BLOG Post #467: Trump Cedes the Energy Future to China 9 Jul 20259 Jul 2025 Avoiding Dependence But in Vastly Different Ways When it comes to energy planning, China and the US are moving in opposite directions. As the New York Times reported on July…
BLOG ANNOUNCEMENT 8 Jul 20258 Jul 2025 My latest article, "How Trump's Tariffs Are Hurting Americans," has just been published in Global Asia. Here's the link: https://www.globalasia.org/v20no2/cover/how-trumps-tariffs-are-hurting-americans_mel-gurtov
BLOG Post #463: The Trump-Xi Conversation: One Step in a Long March 7 Jun 20258 Jul 2025 President Trump finally got his wish for a conversation with Xi Jinping. Or perhaps I should say that President Xi granted Trump an audience. The Chinese leader has no doubt…
BLOG Post #461: In Trump’s Trade War, It’s Advantage China 9 May 202516 May 2025 Without Rhyme or Reason “We welcomed the Chinese Communist Party into this global order. And they took advantage of all its benefits. But they ignored all its obligations and responsibilities.…
BLOG Post #458: Tariff Delusions 11 Apr 202511 Apr 2025 Mindless Tariffs It takes a certain kind of person who celebrates when something occurs that she had predicted would not happen. Likewise, it takes a certain kind of person who…
BLOG Post #457: Trump’s Crazy Trade War 4 Apr 20256 Apr 2025 A Scatter Gun Approach The Trump tariff shock is going to take a bit of time to sink in, though stock markets worldwide have already sunk. Altogether, sixty countries have…
BLOG Post #456: Embrace Russia, Contain China? A Fool’s Errand 1 Apr 20258 Jul 2025 Trump's China Policy Thomas L. Friedman of the New York Times came away from a China trip convinced that cooperation to regulate and contain artificial general intelligence (AGI) is the…
BLOG… the Global Citizen Podcasts On Substack 7 Feb 20255 Aug 2025 Global Citizen podcasts are now available on Substack. Please subscribe (it's free) or listen to any podcast at https://melgurtov.substack.com. Here are the latest: #103: Israel and Genocide https://melgurtov.substack.com/p/global-citizen-international-digest-db2?r=geodg #102: Trump's…
BLOG Post #446: The Year Past and the Year Ahead 26 Dec 2024 The global citizen agenda for 2025 is very much like that for 2024—and probably for some years afterward. It includes global warming and related environmental crises; US-China tensions; challenges to…
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