The Great Transshipment Scam & The Politics Of Double Standards

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Washington says it is enforcing the rules of global trade. But as tariffs, Russian-oil sanctions and allegations of Chinese transshipment converge, the bigger question is whether those rules are being applied consistently—or rewritten to serve American interests.

Is Washington rewriting the rules of world trade to suit itself, and calling it enforcement? That is the critical question behind the White House’s newest trade report, the Senate’s push to punish countries buying Russian oil, and months of stalled talks between India and the United States.

Behind the language of ‘scams’ and ‘shadow networks’ is a common trend: a dominant economy sets the terms for everyone else and ignores its own contradictions in the process.



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