John Feffer is the author of the dystopian novel 'Splinterlands' (2016) and the director of Foreign Policy In Focus at the Institute for Policy Studies. His novel, 'Frostlands' (2018) is book two of his Splinterlands trilogy. Splinterlands book three 'Songlands' was published in 2021. His podcast is available here.
Japan’s recovery from the devastation of World War II was assisted by another war. Japanese manufacturers and the service industries around military bases received a big lift when they helped U.S. forces during the Korean War.A little over a decade later, South Korea got a similar boost when its manufacturers helped the U.S. military during the Vietnam War.
When former President Donald Trump announced tariffs against China five years ago, Biden called the move “short-sighted.” There were some expectations that the incoming Biden administration would lift those sanctions because they were hurting American consumers, farmers, and workers in industries hit with Chinese counter-sanctions. But the administration did little to reverse the Trump policy toward China.
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