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Economist. Once Chief Economist at UBS. Now China Centre, Oxford & SOAS, Advisory Board China Observatory, Council on Geostrategy. Ops/blogs on website.
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Inside China’s great game for the Arctic

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By George Magnus
| Engelsberg Ideas
Once a frozen frontier and geostrategic backwater, the Arctic is now an important geopolitical theatre. America’s new national security strategy stresses hemispheric national interests. Russia regards itself as a sort of Arctic gatekeeper, and, despite the burdens of the ongoing war in Ukraine, its investment in its own Northern Fleet and naval and maritime infrastructure has persisted. Europe has been pulled into Arctic geopolitics by Donald Trump’s insistence on wanting to ‘own’ Greenland.
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Trump’s cards to play in China

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By George Magnus
| Engelsberg Ideas
When President Trump goes to Beijing later this week to meet with Xi Jinping, there will be fanfare, red carpets, much hand-shaking and photo opportunities, signed memoranda, and, very likely, some ‘deals’ on trade. The general view that any benefits from the meeting will be modest is well founded.
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Why the war in Iran is not a gift to China

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By George Magnus
| Engelsberg Ideas
Benjamin Franklin is credited with saying that the only two certainties in life are death and taxes. With the backdrop of a third Gulf War, we might add the only other certainty: surging energy prices and restricted supplies of other commodities will curb global growth and world trade, possibly causing a recession, and exacerbate cost-of-living concerns. The longer the war persists and the greater the damage to energy installations, the bigger the stagflation impact.
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