Ian Williams
Correspondent at Channel 4 News
Author of 'Vampire State. The rise and fall of the Chinese Economy'. Longtime foreign correspondent in Moscow, the Indo-Pacific and China @NBCNews @Channel4News
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1 week ago |
thespectator.com | Matthew Lynn |Charles Lipson |Kate Andrews |Ian Williams
A recession now looks even more certain for the United States. Output has flattened. The chaotic implementation of Donald Trump’s tariff regime has left businesses bewildered. And consumers will soon be facing huge price rises. Of course, the US might well emerge in better shape at the end of it. The trouble is, President Trump has done nothing to prepare the voters for the pain ahead – and he will find a downturn very tough politically.
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1 week ago |
thespectator.com | Alexander Larman |Byron’s Women |Ian Williams |Curtis Yarvin
Charlie Brooker’s cautionary technological tales have now been running for well over a decade, and they are almost in danger of seeming old-fashioned. When Black Mirror began in 2011, Instagram was only a few months old, the iPhone was a new novelty just coming into the mainstream, and Elon Musk was best known for being CEO of Tesla. Now, virtually everything in the world has changed, and Big Tech plays roles in our lives that the ever-cynical Brooker could barely have imagined.
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2 weeks ago |
thespectator.com | Kate Andrews |Dot Wordsworth |Freddy Gray |Ian Williams
“THIS IS A GREAT TIME TO BUY!!!” President Donald Trump wrote on his Truth Social account yesterday morning. With trillions of dollars wiped off stock market value since his tariff announcements last week, this appeared to be an attempt to manufacture a silver lining. It also happened to be a literal statement.
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2 weeks ago |
thespectator.com | Ian Williams |Curtis Yarvin |Aidan McLaughlin |Peter Pomerantsev
China hit back on Wednesday with an additional 50 percent tariff on US imports, matching the extra levy imposed overnight by Donald Trump on Chinese goods. That made the running totals 104 percent so far from Washington, vs 84 percent from Beijing, prompting one analyst to compare them to two racing cars driving straight at each other in a high stakes game of chicken.
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2 weeks ago |
eurotopics.net | Ian Williams |Gregor Scheu |Romaric Godin |Emilian Isaila
If Trump believes he can force a deal like this, it just goes to show how little he understands about Chinese history and culture, writes the Süddeutsche Zeitung: “To this day, China's colonial period, in which Western powers subjugated and colonised the country in a series of opium wars, is collectively referred to as the '100 years of shame'. ... Back then the country vowed never again to be humiliated by other nations. This principle still defines its political self-image today. ...
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RT @MorningAnswer: With the U.S.–China trade conflict deepening, former foreign correspondent and China expert @ianwill joined Chicago’s Mo…
A pleasure to join @DanProft and @amyjacobson on Chicago's @MorningAnswer radio show talking china, trade wars, tariffs and the escalating geopolitical stakes https://t.co/5WkXaQfMIo
Has Trump blinked, delaying tariffs on most countries, but further hiking those on China, or was it about China all along? #china #tariffs #TradeWar
"The ball is now back in the court of Donald Trump, whose demand for China to rescind its retaliatory tariffs has been well and truly rebuffed." More expertise from @ianwill here: https://t.co/ZturWPWWRe
