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Dec 1, 2024 | 
nypost.com | Thomas Duesterberg |Peter Rough
US President Donald Trump attends a meeting with Russia's President Vladimir Putin during the G20 summit in Osaka on June 28, 2019. AFP via Getty Images Russian President Vladimir Putin is rushing to defeat Ukraine because the Kremlin stands on the brink of economic crisis.
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Oct 9, 2024 | 
aspeniaonline.it | Thomas Duesterberg
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The Harris-Trump campaign is notable in its lack of serious debate on the many economic issues confronting the country.
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Aug 27, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Thomas Duesterberg
WSJ Opinion: DNC Achieved Its Goals: Capture Kamala and Define TrumpYour browser does not support HTML5 video. 0:00Paused0:00 / 5:43WSJ Opinion: DNC Achieved Its Goals: Capture Kamala and Define TrumpPlay video: WSJ Opinion: DNC Achieved Its Goals: Capture Kamala and Define TrumpVoters deserve to know how Donald Trump and Kamala Harris intend to fix the global trade system. Its crowning achievements—the Bretton Woods monetary management system and the World Trade Organization—are in disrepair.
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May 7, 2024 | 
nationalreview.com | Thomas Duesterberg
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Apr 8, 2024 | 
climatechangedispatch.com | Thomas Richard |Thomas Duesterberg
Before environmental protection became a global issue, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping taught that “only development is a solid truth.” Deng saw the degradation of the environment as a “necessary evil” in the drive for Chinese growth. [emphasis, links added]As a result, China now leads the world in carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, land and water pollution, and the depletion of natural resources.
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Apr 7, 2024 | 
wsj.com | Thomas Duesterberg
Before environmental protection became a global issue, Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping taught that “only development is a solid truth.” Deng saw the degradation of the environment as a “necessary evil” in the drive for Chinese growth. As a result, China now leads the world in carbon-dioxide emissions, land and water pollution, and the depletion of natural resources. China’s current leader, Xi Jinping , has pledged to build what he calls an “ecological civilization” in service of a net-zero future.
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Jan 16, 2024 | 
aspeniaonline.it | Thomas Duesterberg
126 Share The reelection of Taiwan’s ruling party, the Democratic People’s Party, to the presidency – in the person of William Lai Ching-te, former Vice-President – will not fundamentally change the complicated economic dynamics of the US-China-Taiwan relationship, especially in the established economic dimension. The obvious need of Xi Jinping to continue his efforts to regularize the PRC’s political and economic relations with the receptive Biden administration, due to China’s dependence on...
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Dec 8, 2023 | 
themessenger.com | Thomas Duesterberg
As winter storms sweep across the Ukrainian flatlands and Russian missiles target electrical grids and power plants there, the question of whether Ukraine can endure the brutal trench warfare confronts Western supporters in an urgent way. President Vladimir Putin clearly believes that his vast Eurasian power can outlast the resources and will of both its target and the Western powers that support it.
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Nov 12, 2023 | 
wsj.com | Thomas Duesterberg
In an article previewing President Biden’s meeting with China’s Xi Jinping this week, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said the U.S. has “a pragmatic economic strategy: one that protects our vital national security interests while seeking a stable and healthy economic relationship” with Beijing. But in the perilous and fast-changing world of late 2023, Beijing doesn’t seem interested in that sort of balance.
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Sep 1, 2023 | 
aspeniaonline.it | Thomas Duesterberg
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Both the US and the Chinese leaders have what they evidently consider compelling strategic, economic, and political considerations in favor of cooling the simmering tensions that have escalated since the latter part of the Trump administration.
