The success of powers such as China and the United States, driven by state intervention, highlights the fallacy of neoliberal free market dogma and underscores the need to adopt pragmatic policies free from rigid ideologies.
By assuming that trade relations are a zero-sum game in which to win the other must lose, and that a trade deficit reflects losing and a surplus winning, President Trump reveals a simplism far removed from the dynamics of international trade.
Regardless of whether this new round of threats ends up being implemented or not, expectations can have a big effect even before anything concrete actually happens.
The South American Gran Chaco is capable of absorbing large amounts of greenhouse gases from the atmosphere and is home to a rich biological and cultural diversity.
We must consider how to carry out the transition without harming subsistence economies or the income derived from the export of extensive agricultural production.