Topic: International

Authoritarianism, Government, International

Why China’s Aggression In Asia Is Backfiring

– February 18, 2022

“China occupies a region with fierce competitors. This presents Washington with an opportunity for a more nuanced and multilateral response that brings together diverse countries in pursuit of peace and stability in the region.” ~ Ethan Yang

Economic Education, Free Trade, Government, International

In Respectful Disagreement with Alex Salter

– February 15, 2022

“While Alex is correct to note that cross-border trade doesn’t ensure against belligerence, it almost certainly does make such belligerence more costly and, hence, less likely. We abandon such trade at our peril.” ~ Donald J. Boudreaux

Crisis, Government, International, War and Peace

Biden Administration: Incompetent, Naïve, or Desperate?

– February 12, 2022

“Dealing with the Ukraine crisis might prove impossible for a president who is incompetent, naïve, and desperate. Buckle up, as the fabled (though probably faux) Chinese curse, ‘May you live in interesting times,’ comes true.” ~ Doug Bandow

Economic History, Free Trade, International, War and Peace

Lessons from the Tokugawa Shogunate 1603 – 1868

– February 5, 2022

“The impact of the Shogunate was one of stability and unification over the course of the 1600s. The Shogunate established peace and stability after a period of destructive civil war, which in turn allowed commerce and domestic industry to flourish.” ~ Robert F. Mulligan

Crisis, Financial Markets, International, War and Peace

Putin, Ukraine, and Covid

– February 2, 2022

“Russia is not, by far, the only nation for which the Covid pandemic starkly exposed a variety of limitations. But whether in volumes or a few paragraphs, history must reflect the role that one of many influences, a global pandemic, played.” ~ Peter C. Earle

Central Banking, Inflation, International

Death by Inflation or by Interest Rate Hikes?

– February 1, 2022

“If central banks protect the value of the currency, they will create an economic crisis. If they try to avoid the economic crisis, they will destroy the value of the currency and cause a monetary crisis anyway.” ~ Daniel Fernández

Authoritarianism, Government, History, International

Russia Closes Gulag Memorial, but Communist Oppression Must Not Be Forgotten

– January 27, 2022

“Let us honor the Memorial International and its brave supporters. They helped force the rest of us to remember the evil that never seems to lurk far from men’s and women’s hearts.” ~ Doug Bandow

Fiscal Policy, International, Monetary Policy

The Year of the Strong Dollar

– January 27, 2022

“The urgency to correct the country’s large public finances is likely to be heightened by a further widening in the trade deficit in 2022 as the consequence of a stronger dollar and the relative strength of the U.S. economy.” ~ Desmond Lachman

Environmentalism, Free Markets, International, Regulation

Africa Needs Carbon Fuels

– January 23, 2022

“It’s time to end environmental colonialism. Let Africa develop – quickly – and they, like people elsewhere, will choose more environmental protection as they grow wealthier.” ~ James E. Hanley

Crisis, Environmentalism, Government, International

The Green Economy, Interethnic Conflict, Corporate Mining, and West Papua

– January 7, 2022

“It is strange how President Biden and other world leaders’ desires to save the planet from global warming can be the impetus for local environmental crises that are more immediate in their consequences than the global warming on the horizon.” ~ Todd Myers

Authoritarianism, Crisis, International

How to Compete with the Chinese

– January 1, 2022

“Will the search for technological supremacy lead us to embrace China’s vision of governance by a technologically sophisticated bureaucracy, and what does that mean for individual rights and dignity?” ~ Todd Myers

Crisis, Energy, Environmentalism, International

Could Carbon Taxes Lose Us a Cold War with China?

– December 24, 2021

“To draw the developing world from the clutches of China’s Communist Party, policy-makers must incorporate revenue neutrality into their carbon tax considerations, or else abandon the plan entirely.” ~ Connor Tomlinson