Day: March 14, 2018

Some Things Are True Even if Trump Believes Them – by Thomas Friedman – NYT

March 14, 2018 / China, Thomas Friedman, Trade and Trade Policy

Thomas Friedman is great in this column. He writes that China is a big problem, but the Trump steel tariff hurts our allies and not China. Then: “So what would a smart American president do? First, he’d sign the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade accord. TPP eliminated as many as 18,000 tariffs on U.S. exports with the …

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The Biggest Refugee Camp Braces for Rain: ‘This Is Going to Be a Catastrophe’ – The New York Times

March 14, 2018 / Bullies and Scoundrels, David Lindsay, Environment, Myanmar, Rohingya of Myanmar

The world’s largest refugee camp, a temporary home to more than half a million people that sprawls precariously across barren hills in southeastern Bangladesh, faces a looming disaster as early as April when the first storms of the monsoon season hit, aid workers warn. “It’s going to be landslides, flash floods, inundation,” said Tommy Thompson, …

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