Donald Trump’s apparent climb-down from his 245 percent tariffs on Chinese imports has critics gleefully proclaiming his humiliation at the hands of China’s Xi Jinping. Not so fast, writes Henry Gao in Tablet. China, Gao argues, needs the U.S. far more than vice-versa, and the Communist regime’s relentless propaganda merely masks worsening structural economic weaknesses that would make a protracted trade war all-but unendurable.
Yay Brexit!
Brendan O’Neill in Spiked enthuses that Brexit is superior to just about anything else in the world. “There should be street parties” on the 10th anniversary of the popular vote to withdraw from the EU, he writes. “Let the bells peal for that momentous day when in our millions we said No to globalism.” The continuing surfeit of saboteurs and naysayers among Britain’s “idiot elites”, O’Neill snorts, are gripped by Brexit Derangement Syndrome.
