Baru baru ini dunia dikejutkan dengan adanya perang dagang antara amerika dengan tiongkok. Presidin terpilih Amerika ke-47 yaitu Donald Trump mengumumkan bahwa akan menaikan tarif impor dari negara Tiongkok. Perang dagang diantara kedua negara adidaya ini mempunyai dampak sangat besar terhadap politik global, karena Amerika dan Tiongkok adalah kekuatan utama dunia terutama dalam faktor ekonomi. […]
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Block 3 / Central Asia / China / News / Russia / The Conversation / Uzbekistan / World
Russian clout fading, China reshaping Central Asia energy sector
China has been developing closer ties with countries in Central Asia over recent years. Trade between China and the Central Asia region grew to US$89 billion in 2023, an increase of 27% on the previous year. Chinese trade rose with every country there except Turkmenistan. In my paper from June 2024, which is part of […]
Block 2 / Covid-19 Pandemic / IMF / News / The Conversation / Trump Tariffs / World / World Economic Outlook
IMF: Economic uncertainty is now higher than it was during Covid
The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has just published its World Economic Outlook, and it does not take an expert to deduce that, even among some of the world’s top economic minds, confident predictions are currently hard to come by. Every spring the IMF and World Bank hold their spring meetings in Washington, DC: a week […]
Carlo M. Cipolla / Donald Trump / News / Opinion / Stupidity / The Conversation / Trump Tariffs / United States
Stupidity researchers: Trump’s policies not just dumb but stupid
Before he stepped down as Canadian prime minister, Justin Trudeau called Donald Trump’s tariff policies “very dumb.” This might be an accurate description of many Trump administration policies — but the more objectively correct word is “stupid.” In fact, Québec’s largest newspaper, Le Journal de Montréal, published a front-page photo of Trump in early February […]
Anthony Albanese / Australia / Block 3 / DOGE / Donald Trump / Greenland Annexation / News / Peter Dutton / The Conversation / Trump Effect / Trump Liberation Day / Trump Tariffs / Ukraine war / US-Australia relations / World
Australians hate Trump’s policies and distrust US: poll
Australians strongly disagree with key policies of US President Donald Trump, and have overwhelmingly lost trust in the United States to act responsibly in the world, according to the Lowy Institute’s 2025 poll. Despite this, 80% of people say the alliance is “very” or “fairly” important for Australia’s security, only fractionally down on last year’s […]
Anime / Barefoot Gen / Cuteness / Doraemon / Grave of the Fireflies / Hayao Miyazaki / Hello Kitty / Manga / News / Pikachu / Pokemon / Studio Ghibli / The Conversation / World
Pikachu, Studio Ghibli memes and the subversive power of cuteness
In Antalya, Turkey, in the early hours of March 27, 2025, Pikachu was spotted fleeing the police, making a getaway as fast as his short yellow legs could waddle. The person dressed as the popular Pokémon character had been objecting to the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, whose political party later posted on X, […]
Block 3 / Canada / Chinese diaspora / News / South Asian diaspora / The Conversation / World
Why many 2nd-generation Asian Canadians plan to vote Conservative
After months of political decline, the Liberal Party of Canada is showing signs of recovery, buoyed, some suggest, by a surge of national pride in the face of Donald Trump’s tariff war and threats to Canadian sovereignty. But this apparent rebound obscures a more surprising political shift: the growing appeal of the Conservative Party of […]
Block 2 / Donald Trump / MAGA / News / The Conversation / United States / US Immigration Crackdown / US Tourism / US-Canada Trade War / US-Mexico Trade War
Detained on arrival: Why US is no longer safe for tourists
The United States is one of the top three most visited countries in the world. The big draw cards – cities such as San Francisco, New York and Chicago and national parks such as Yosemite – have attracted international tourists for decades. This combined with its role as a global business powerhouse meant it had […]
Arctic Competition / Block 3 / China in Arctic / Donald Trump / Greenland / Greenland Annexation / NATO / News / Norway / Svalbard / The Arctic / The Conversation / US-Russia rivalry / World
Thawing Arctic heats up US-Russia imperialist instincts
“You cannot annex another country.” This was the clear message given by the Danish prime minister, Mette Frederiksen, at a recent press conference with the outgoing and incoming prime ministers of Greenland. It did not appear aimed at Russian president Vladimir Putin, but at Donald Trump, the president of one of her country’s closest allies, […]
Block 2 / News / Recep Tayyip Erdogan / Syria War / The Conversation / Turkey / Turkey-Russia Relations / Ukraine war / World
Turkey holds the key to solving multiple global crises
While Turkey’s government is struggling to deal with mass protests at home (after Istanbul’s mayor Ekrem Imamoglu was imprisoned), in foreign affairs, it is in an increasingly strong position as a key power broker in deals with Europe, the US and Russia. At the crossroads between Asia and Europe, Turkey is strategically important to just […]