Japan & South Korea: Trade war tensions escalate

James Clement is a member of Socialist Alternative (England, Wales & Scotland). The ongoing trade war between Japan and South Korea has heightened with the decision by the South Korean government to sever their military intelligence cooperation with Japan. The trade war itself began when Japan removed South Korea from its white list of 27 […]

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Charting Japan’s decline

Robin Clapp is a member of the Socialist Party (CWI in England & Wales). Still the world’s third largest economy in total GDP terms, Japan is stagnating – hit by prolonged economic stagnation, political inertia and rising social alienation. Peak Japan: the end of great ambitions, Brad Glosserman, 2019reviews a comprehensive guide to Japan’s rise […]

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