... between innovation and manufacturing is underscored by the faster growth in annual R&D expenditures by American corporations in China compared to their spending dynamics in the U.S.
To address the situation and curb the widening trade deficit, President Donald Trump signed an executive
order
on April 2, 2025, introducing reciprocal differential tariff rates on imports from most U.S. trading partners. In particular, China was hit with a 34% tariff on top of the 20% imposed earlier. After China levied ...
... sanctions would be premature; unlike trade policy tools, sanctions remain primarily instruments of foreign policy.
Andrey Kortunov:
Can U.S. New Tariffs Trigger Structural Changes in Global Economy?
One of the most consequential moves at the start of Donald Trump’s second term was the sweeping increase in US import tariffs. The new policy targeted nearly all trading partners, with additional duties imposed on over seventy countries. This aggressive escalation– dubbed a “trade war against the ...
... can become an accelerator or, on the contrary, will turn into a brake on the development of Russian-American relations.
A New World Order
Rahul Pandey:
The U.S.-Led Global Disorder: Opportunities for India, China and Russia
Many tactical interests of ... ... traditionalist national sovereignty and for a return to conservative values. The leaders of the two countries—Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump—understand each other well, their views on the processes taking place in the world are not identical, but appear ...
... where decades happen.”
Henry Kissinger's secret visit
to China in the early 1970s was such a week when the seeds of the new world order were established, followed by China’s opening up to the world and massive economic, military and societal changes ... ... century.”
Andrey Kortunov:
Can U.S. New Tariffs Trigger Structural Changes in Global Economy?
On April 2, 2025, U.S. President Donald Trump
unveiled
an early 20
th
-century type of economic policy, increasing tariffs on countries unseen since the
Great ...
Trump’s tariff hammer and the Mar-a-Lago Accord form a strategic triad—protectionism, fiscal relief, and geopolitical leverage—to reboot U.S. hegemony
Introduction
On April 2, 2025, President Donald Trump announced a bold escalation in U.S. trade policy, imposing a baseline 10% tariff on all imports and a specific 20% tariff on goods from the European Union (EU), up from the previous average tariff rate of 3.5%. [
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] Framed as a countermeasure ...
... caused by the emerging transatlantic rift. In that case, it also has to consider potential mid- and long-term economic losses linked to numerous disruptions within the global economic system. On top of that, one should not forget that U.S. President Donald Trump continuously threatens to impose further restrictive economic measures, such as new tariffs on Russian oil consumers, on Moscow if Russia does not properly engage in U.S.-mediated Ukraine ceasefire negotiations.
Andrey Kortunov:
The Future ...
... taken hold in the U.S. during the rule of the “Swamp Party,” with the woke agenda becoming state policy.
Aleksandr Dynkin:
World Order Transformation: Economy, Ideology, Technology
In von Hoffmeister’s historiosophical narrative, America is depicted ... ... depths to reclaim its former glory? Von Hoffmeister believes the answer lies in the outcome of the current presidential race. Donald Trump, the Republican frontrunner, loathed by the “deep state,” represents the hope of America’s “forgotten majority”—conservative ...
... generating and protecting global and regional public goods, let alone of stepping to the fore as main architects of the new world order.
Nobody is in a position to stop the Russian-Ukrainian conflict without an active American participation. For all ... ... and aspirations for a US-dominated world, will make America great again.
There is a feeling that today neither Joe Biden nor Donald Trump are ready to offer the American society an updated version of the "New Deal", adjusted to the realities ...
... violation of the fundamental norms of international law. Everyone saw it, everyone knew it, but either kept silent or simply could not do anything about it. As a result, three decades’ worth of irreparable damage was caused to the foundations of the world order on which international security had been built since the end of the Second World War.
And then Donald Trump stepped onto the global political scene. Many see him as a revolutionary, a destroyer of the foundations of the familiar world order. But the fact is that Trump has continued to do the very same things that world leaders before him did with ...
... Germany — brings the issues of transatlantic or European-American relations to the forefront. The configuration of the future world order will depend on the dynamics of these relations.
Such tensions within Western institutions and the Euro-Atlantic region ... ... game" in favor of the United States.
The results of the presidential elections in the United States and the new office headed by Donald Trump were generally evaluated as negative in Germany, causing a new wave of disappointment towards the U.S. as a reliable ...
