You can't expect to rule with supreme power just because some watery tart threw you a sword
Monty Python - Repressed Citizen
If the US-China relationship unravels, so will the international order as we know it
Henry Paulson says relations built on the integration of goods, capital, technology and people are now threatened by the prospect of an ‘Economic Iron Curtain’
To stop disputes spinning out of control, the US must realise the futility of isolating China, while China must address criticism of its economic practices
The United States played the decisive role in facilitating China’s entry into the World Trade Organisation. Yet 17 years after China entered the WTO, China still has not opened its economy to foreign competition in so many areas. Nearly 20 years after entering the WTO, this is simply unacceptable.
Even though many American businesses continue to prosper in China, a growing number of firms have given up hope that the playing field will ever be level. Some have accepted the Faustian bargain of maximising today’s earnings per share while operating under restrictions that jeopardise their future competitiveness. But that doesn’t mean they’re happy about it. Nor does it mean they aren’t acutely aware of the risks – or thinking harder than ever before about how to diversify their risks away from, and beyond, China.
For 40 years, the US-China relationship has been characterised by the integration of four things – goods, capital, technology and people. And over these 40 years, economic integration between the two countries was supposed to mitigate security competition. But an intellectually honest appraisal must now admit that this hasn’t happened and that the reverse is taking place.
https://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/united-states/article/2172118/if-us-china-relationship-unravels-so-will
Seems reality hit and no he won't to admit he was wrong ,just like the polling pundits
US government has paid US$108 million to ‘snitches’ since 1985 in lucrative bounty scheme to bring down drug kingpins
Critics of the government’s rewards programmes warn that huge cash bounties increase cartel violence and encourage corruption
Government defends programme saying 70 ‘major violators’ have been caught, but critics say there’s ‘no accountability’
Exploiting the temptation to become an overnight multimillionaire is what the Narcotics Rewards Programme (NRP) is about. In the past five years, it has distributed almost US$32 million to 33 people, with some receiving as much as US$5 million, according to the department’s Bureau of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs.
The programme, the US government said, has resulted in the arrest of almost 70 “foreign major violators” since it was created. The total price tag: US$108 million.
Last month, the Trump administration put the NRP back in the spotlight when US attorney general at the time Jeff Sessions announced the bounty on Nemesio Oseguera Cervantes had doubled to US$10 million. Cervantes, 52, is the reputed leader of the Cartel Jalisco Nueva Generacion which allegedly trafficked “many tons” of drugs into the US, the State Department claims.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2172632/us-government-has-paid-us108-million-snitches-1985
US to stop mid-air refuelling of Saudi-led coalition aircraft attacking Yemen
The United States is to stop refuelling aircraft from the Saudi-led coalition attacking Yemen, Saudi Arabia said on Saturday, a move that would end one of the most divisive aspects of US military help to the Saudis.
Riyadh said it had decided to request an end to US aerial refuelling for its operations in Yemen because it could do it itself.
A US official, speaking on condition of anonymity, said Washington supported the Saudi decision.
Critics of the Saudi campaign have long questioned US involvement in the war, which has killed more than 10,000 people, displaced more than 2 million and led to widespread famine in Yemen since it began in 2015.
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/united-states-canada/article/2172595/us-stop-mid-air-refuelling-saudi-led-coalition