The Globalist

Everything you always wanted to know about section 232 of the U.S. Act on steel and aluminum, but were always afraid to ask.

Donald Trump’s decision to impose tariffs on imported steel and aluminum poses the danger of a costly tit-for-tat whereby U.S. trade protection will be countered by others.

Scott Tong travels to China to discover how his great-grandfather saved the Tong family village during World War Two.

Scott Tong travels to China with his mother to track down their family history.

Scott Tong returns to China to find his grandmother’s old school in Nanchang.

Scott Tong’s quest to find a place that may no longer even exist: The ancestral Tong family village–Fu Ma Ying.

Is Russia in breach of the 1986 INF Treaty on Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces, agreed by Reagan and Gorbachev? This would be dangerous.

To Trump, everything in politics – even at the global trade stage – is about him personally and how it affects his business interests.

China hopes to shift production from low-wage human labor to robots, as South Korea has done.

Across Asia, governments not only refuse to recognize a quest for cultural, ethnic, national or political rights, but are often willing to suppress them with brutal force.