Stratfor's Blog

By Stratfor – China Remains in the US Crosshairs. The United States will impose tariffs, sanctions and blocks on investment and research in a bid to frustrate China's development of strategic technologies.

By Stratfor – Canada has a trade war on its hands — and it is one entirely of its own making. For the past four months, two of its western provinces, Alberta and British Columbia, have been exchanging blows over an expansion to Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain...

By Stratfor – The race has well and truly begun. China, the United States, South Korea and a handful of telecommunications companies are rolling up their sleeves to develop, test and deploy the technology that will drive the world’s economy in the decade...

By Stratfor – With a directive from the central government and a less restrictive regulatory environment, China has been at the forefront of using CRISPR for health care purposes. Chinese scientists were the first to edit the genome of a human embryo...

By Stratfor – In December 2017, US President Donald Trump signed into law his country's first major tax reform since the Reagan era. Sometimes new legislation is seismic in its effects, directly altering the playing field...

By Stratfor – The White House Takes on the World: The White House will bump up against the laws of the United States and the central tenets of the World Trade Organization as it launches a global trade offensive in the name...

By Stratfor – North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has set late April as the date for the third inter-Korean summit, to be held in Panmunjom. Kim said he would be willing to hold talks with the United States geared toward normalization of...

By Stratfor – Cryptocurrencies and, more broadly, the mechanism that underpins them — distributed ledger technology — continue to emerge in importance. One key trend within that sphere is the creation and adoption of cryptocurrencies by...

By Stratfor – The United States and Brazil might have switched their ideas about trade, but that hasn't brought them any closer to finding agreement. For the longest time, Washington pushed for free trade in the Americas, only to...

By Stratfor – For several years now, concerns about the United States' crumbling infrastructure have garnered cross-party support within the country's government. There is no question that US roads, bridges, airports and...