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  • The US–China phoney trade war

    Shiro Armstrong     |     May 29, 2018

    For now, a trade war between the world's two largest economies and two largest traders may have been avoided. American tariffs on Chinese imports are 'on hold', according 

  • The great China–US trade face-off

    Shiro Armstrong     |     April 19, 2018

    Some people think the difficulties in international economic policy that we face today all arose with the election of US President Donald Trump. That is oversimplification of the matter. They are 

  • ASEAN’s renewed centrality

    Shiro Armstrong     |     March 13, 2018

    US President Trump fired the first shots in what could become a global trade war this week with the imposition of 25 per cent tariffs on imports of steel and