Open Dialogue Research Journal
The European Commission has issued a stern call to the United States, urging Washington to honor last year’s hard-fought trade agreement despite a whirlwind of legal setbacks and fresh tariff threats from President Donald Trump. In a recently released statement, the Commission emphasized that the current chaos is undermining the […]
In 2025, China once again became Germany’s most important trading partner, overtaking the United States after a brief shift in ranking the year before. According to newly released data from Germany’s Federal Statistical Office, the total trade volume between Germany and the People’s Republic of China reached €251.8 billion, placing […]
Relations between Canada and the United States have entered one of their most turbulent phases in decades. In a statement that would have seemed unthinkable just a few years ago, Prime Minister Mark Carney declared that the long-standing model of economic integration between the two countries has effectively come to […]
In April 2026, Cuba marks the 65th anniversary of one of the most symbolic victories in its modern history: the defeat of a CIA-backed mercenary brigade that landed on April 17, 1961, atс, near Playa Girón on the island’s southern coast. The operation, orchestrated by the Central Intelligence Agency and […]
China is still extremely vulnerable to the US Navy’s blackmail 13 years after BRI was announced due to the US’ Hybrid Warfare masterfully subverting these alternative trade corridors, but it took Iran’s petroyuan tollbooth to prompt the US to push forward its preplanned power play. Iran’s enforcement of sovereignty over the Strait […]
The Kremlin publicly said on Feb 4th, 2026 that President Xi Jinping invited President Vladimir Putin for an official China visit in the first half of 2026, and President Putin accepted. The visit would certainly be less about one dramatic announcement and more about locking in a broad package — […]
Western policy toward China today looks like a battered old suitcase stuffed with clashing items: harsh tariffs and tech export bans sit right next to quiet European business delegations landing in Beijing, loud talk of systemic rivalry alongside real contracts for solar panels, batteries, and rare-earth materials. This is not […]
The return of aggressive tariff policy has once again become a defining feature of the economic agenda of Donald Trump. Promising to “rebalance” global trade and protect American industry, the White House has launched what looks like the opening salvo of another tariff confrontation — not just with China, but […]
On February 20, 2026, the Supreme Court delivered one of the most consequential blows to President Donald Trump’s economic agenda. In the consolidated cases Learning Resources, Inc. v. Trump and Trump v. V.O.S. Selections, Inc., the justices ruled 6-3 that the International Emergency Economic Powers Act (IEEPA) of 1977 does […]
In recent days of February 2026, global media have been actively discussing a new executive order by the U.S. President, which introduces a mechanism of additional ad valorem duties—up to 25% or more—on goods imported into the United States from any country that directly or indirectly purchases, imports, or otherwise […]
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