ABSTRACTIn “The Art of War,” Sun Tzu states that “Every battle is won or lost before it’s ever fought”. Détente was used during the cold war for easing strained relations, especially, in using the threat of a preempt attack. Today, a battle space has many dimensions which now include cyberspace. The…

Historians tell us that between 1500 BC and 300 BC the Phoenicians a Semitic civilization that originated in the Eastern Mediterranean which included the coastline of what is now Lebanon, Israel, Gaza, Syria, and southwest Turkey dominated sea trade in the Mediterranean Sea. Later on some Phoenician…

Special Economic Zones as defined by The World Bank: " A free-trade zone (FTZ) is a specific class of special economic zone. It is a geographic area where goods may be landed, stored, handled, manufactured, or reconfigured, and re-exported under specific customs regulation and generally not subject…

Trade disputes have marked Trump’s behavior in such patent way, that when America and Mexico announced they had agreed on changes to the North American Free Trade Agreement the markets and everyone else had a sigh of relief. Nonetheless, the pompous announcement by Trump who is now starving for a…

Trump said he’s “ending” NAFTA and replacing it with the “largest trade deal ever made.” The reality is that Trump cannot unilaterally end NAFTA in a constant lying, we now expect from a president who doesn’t understand treaties or could care less about telling the truth. The fact that NAFTA didn’t…

Why does President Trump take strong action on trade deficits by imposing tariffs, but completely ignores budget deficits, which are significantly more dangerous to the US economy? Budget deficits are an enormous can of worms if open for inspection, especially, now days with more heterodox…

Functions of Tariffs by Definition Tariffs are considered to have three primary functions: to serve as a source of revenue, to protect domestic industries, and to remedy trade distortions (punitive function for product dumping). The revenue function income from tariffs provides governments with a…

If the US wants to challenge Chinese dominance of Asia, then why did Trump insist on the US leaving TPP (Trans-Pacific Partnership), since TPP was designed to limit China’s influence in Asia? In 2016 the Atlantic published an article that interprets Trump’s line of thinking in a very telling…

Trump has a lot of trouble with the facts often selecting in isolation whatever he feels like to make his point but that does not make a fact. For instance, on the issue of cars imported from China makes a case in point by singling out cars instead of a broader trade category of — motor vehicles or…

Cult followers have trouble with the facts for it would collapse their flake world