Modern Life Under Attack: 2024 Should Have Been the Year the West Woke up to Infrastructure Sabotage
Just how fragile is the modern world? More than most years, 2024 has seen a surge of headlines about the things that make civilisation work.

Just how fragile is the modern world? More than most years, 2024 has seen a surge of headlines about the things that make civilisation work.

The outgoing Biden-Harris administration has renewed South Africa’s eligibility for trade benefits through the end of the next fiscal year, despite South Africa’s support for Palestinian terrorism and Russia’s war against Ukraine.

President-elect Donald Trump threatened to retake the Panama Canal if Panama continued to “rip-off” the United States with “exorbitant” transit fees.

Hungary is “confident” that President Donald Trump’s return to office will mend the strained U.S.-Hungary relations under the Biden administration, particularly on economic and strategic issues.

In preparation for President-Elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, European Commission chief Ursula von der Leyen suggested that the bloc will look to replace Russian liquid natural gas (LNG) imports with supplies from the United States.

Donald Trump’s victory in the U.S. presidential election was big news across Africa, although much of the news coverage was not jubilant.

Argentina ran a trade surplus in September for the tenth month in a row under libertarian President Javier Milei.

EU countries gave definitive green light to hefty additional tariffs on electric cars made in China, despite strong opposition led by Germany.

Prime Minister Narendra Modi will visit Moscow on July 8 and 9 at the invitation of Russian President Vladimir Putin.

DETROIT, Michigan — Sen. J.D. Vance (R-OH), a possible vice presidential pick for former President Donald Trump, told Breitbart News exclusively here at the Turning Point Action People’s Convention this weekend that he would gladly accept the nod from Trump if the former president asks him to be his running mate.

Peter Navarro, the former top economic Trump aide who is currently in federal prison for standing up against subpoenas from the January 6 committee, is speaking out from behind bars in an exclusive interview with Breitbart News.

India’s top diplomat, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar, told reporters on Friday that China’s repeated incursions across the border into India make trade with the Communist Party regime difficult, asking, “Would you do business with somebody who had just barged into your drawing room and is trying to make a mess of your house?”

Biden’s late-in-the-game embrace of tariffs is widely seen as an election year pivot to win support in battleground states.

Portfolio manager Steve Eiseman expects Donald Trump will raise tariffs on China but called claims that this would cause inflation “ridiculous.”

Secretary of State Antony Blinken met with low-level Chinese Communist Party officials, students, and businessmen in Shanghai on Thursday, promoting an “expansion of exchanges” with the rogue state in several fields.

Former Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte gave an interview to China’s state-run Global Times on Friday in which the erratic leader trashed the United States as “antagonistic and hostile” and advised his successor, President Ferdinand Marcos, Jr., to adopt a more conciliatory posture toward China.

During an interview with CNBC released on Monday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that “the great majority of” trade between the U.S. and China “is uncontroversial” and she’s working to ensure that the geopolitical relationship and national security worries won’t

During an interview with CNBC released on Monday, Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen said that “China is entitled to have a relationship with Russia.” And “China and Russia do a lot of trade, much of it is unproblematic. But anything that

Breitbart economics editor John Carney said Thursday on Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow” that former President Donald Trump’s trade philosophy was about “reciprocity.”

During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns stated that due to the trade relationship between the two countries, China is “critical” for America’s success and vice versa and that he hopes to “stabilize the relationship.

On Thursday’s broadcast of MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports,” House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Jim Himes (D-CT) defended his vote against a bill forcing ByteDance to divest from TikTok and stated that “people are falling all over themselves to appear

Civilian mariners killed in a Houthi missile strike for the first time, a bulk carrier abandoned and burning in the critical waterway.

Tesla stumbles over ‘Just-in-Time’ logistics and suspends production at Gigafactory as Iran-backed attacks interrupt supply chains.

The ability of Houthis terrorists to threaten merchant shipping “has taken a blow”, after a major strike against 60 targets in Yemen.

Republicans should refuse to reauthorize the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), which offers preferential trade to several African countries, due to South Africa’s behavior in siding with murderous regimes and terrorists against the West.

Even more attacks on trade, the lifeblood of the West, this time off the coast of Iran in the Gulf of Oman.

Maersk said it would divert all vessels around Africa instead of using the Red Sea and Suez Canal for the “foreseeable future”.

One of the UK’s largest retailers warns of stock shortages this year as strikes in Red Sea delay arrivals and send shipping prices spiralling.

Britain “won’t hesitate” to join the U.S. and take “direct action” against Houthis in Yemen its Defence Secretary has said.

A “possible explosion” struck a key shipping lane off Yemen Monday, the latest incident in the vital waterway threatened by Huthi rebels.

The Institute of International Finance (IIF) issued a capital flows report on Wednesday that predicted foreign investors will withdraw $65 billion from China in 2024. The capital outflow has been especially pronounced in China’s bond market.

APEC nations signed a non-binding trade network that lacks important provisions for fair trade and market access.

During an interview aired on Tuesday’s “PBS NewsHour,” Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen stated that the “deep economic relationship and financial relationship” between the U.S. and China “is generally beneficial, both to China and the United States,” and “we have a

During an interview with Bloomberg on Thursday, U.S. Ambassador to China Nicholas Burns stated that the U.S. and China have aligned interests “on the battle against fentanyl and drugs, drug trafficking in the world,” and “those are issues where we seek

Polish President Duda reportedly cancelled a planned meeting with Ukraine’s Volodymyr Zelensky at the U.N. as tensions rise over agricultural trade.

Europe, the Middle East and India will on Saturday unveil plans to create a modern-day Spice Route, in a challenge to China’s Belt and Road.

U.S. Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo visited Beijing on Tuesday and met with China’s Vice Premier He Lifeng.

During a portion of an interview aired on Friday’s broadcast of the Fox Business Network’s “Kudlow,” 2024 Republican presidential candidate former President Donald Trump argued that there should be matching, reciprocal tariffs on goods from any nations that have tariffs

The China-led BRICS trade and security bloc will reportedly discuss reducing their reliance on the U.S. dollar for trade during their upcoming South Africa summit — furthering plans to diminish American influence around the world.

Senior economist Luis Torres of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas noted on Tuesday that Mexico has replaced China as the top U.S. trading partner, racking up $263 billion in trade during the first four months of 2023. China had been the top American trading partner since 2014, when it displaced Canada.
