Labour’s persistent failure to address its electorate’s salient concerns is behind the protest vote, asserts DIANE ABBOTT
The US presidential elections and the prospects for peace
Might the US ruling class be willing to step back from a potentially calamitous new cold war, asks CARLOS MARTINEZ
THE most significant foreign policy component of Donald Trump’s four years in the White House has been the US’s increasingly hostile stance in relation to China.
While Trump has led a dangerous escalation, the general direction of travel is not significantly different from that of the Obama administration, which pointedly kicked off the reorientation of US global strategy from Middle to Far East with its “Pivot to Asia.”
This shift in US-China relations from co-operation through containment to confrontation is most likely a long-term fixture, driven as it is by historic changes in the global economy.
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