Cosying up is wrong. But so is closing ourselves off. The US has passed legislation allowing the government to impose a 50% additional tax on overseas holders of US shares. That is us and our pension… (View Post)

Clearly the prospects for democracy are bleak. I am not sure it is even compatible with social media, at least as currently structured. We are rapidly moving to autocracy. (View Post)

Two thirds of the world was already unreliable pre Trump, now it is closer to 90%. Sure we should mitigate our reliance on China, but it is more absurd to pretend we can live fully independently of c… (View Post)

From a government politicians point of view. If we get on the wrong side of China, the price of stuff we don't need goes up, voters dislike inflation and will kick us out. From the opposition politic… (View Post)

The thing with spying is they spy on us, we spy on them. That probably applies to an extent to our supposed friends too, not just enemies and frenemies. Obviously it needs dealing with when we catch … (View Post)