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Can Europe reject a trade war detour against China?
As Biden ramps up punitive tariffs to protect an ailing corporate supremacy, the EU faces a crucial choice — stay chained to a crumbling US empire, or navigate constructive economic ties with China itself, writes MARC VANDEPITTE
THE SHAPE OF THINGS TO COME: Leapmotor EVs are parked outside a showroom in Hangzhou in Zhejiang province, eastern China, last week. European carmaker Stellantis announced it had formed a joint venture with Leapmotor that will begin selling EVs in nine European countries later this year
NICK WRIGHT considers how the isolation of Israel and a new film on the controversial Italian communist leader are creating new reference points for Italy’s left
CARLOS MARTINEZ says Cuba’s achievements in the face of a criminal blockade are startling, but the island’s future if the United States succeeds in crushing it looks bleak
AMNON BROWNFIELD STEIN reports that far-right MPs who mobbed the event organised by Hadash may have helped raise awareness of the brutality of the Israeli right
Born on this day in 1931, the heroic revolutionary faces a dangerous new wave of White House aggression. We must treat his birthday as a rallying cry to resist the illegal siege of Cuba, writes ROGER McKENZIE
RAMZY BAROUD decries the rats of Gaza, the rodent and human type. Both abound as profiteering from tragedy reaches obscene levels
THE US economic war against China has been going on for some time. It began under Trump and was continued zealously under Biden.
It ranges from import tariffs on Chinese machinery, electronics, steel, aluminium and auto parts, among others, to restrictions on technology transfers of semiconductors, artificial intelligence, telecommunications and 5G networks, space and satellite technology, robotics and advanced manufacturing technology.
Several Chinese companies are on blacklists, preventing US companies from trading with them. This also applies to investments in certain Chinese sectors such as technology, telecom and infrastructure.
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