US, China Friction Further Complicates Australia’s Predicament

Trump is threatening to bring to an end the strict separation that exists between politics and the central bank.

The economic liberalism that the world took for granted has given way to the White House’s attempt to gain sectarian control over institutions, as well as government intervention into private companies,

[T]he naval blockade remains in an attempt to halt drug trafficking, which constitutes 30% of Chavist income.

Trump … has increased his confrontational approach toward Powell.

Someone has to stand up to Trump.

[T]here has been a recent deployment of the U.S. military in the Caribbean: 4,000 U.S. Marines, ships, submarines, missile launchers and planes.

Only peaceful coexistence could guard against the risk of war.