Just before a special election in a congressional district spanning suburbs and rural areas of southwestern Pennsylvania, the US president announced tariffs on steel and aluminum imports for the purposes of national security. The hope was to rally blue-collar and rural workers to vote for the...
Stock markets worldwide are in decline as trade threats between the United States and China escalate. The US economy is strong, and the Trump administration’s goal is to reduce the US trade deficit with China. Trump promised $200 billion more in tariffs if China does not drop its most recent...
China restricts foreign purchases of homes and other property. “The contrast between what Chinese real estate investors can access in the United States, and what American and other foreign buyers can access in China, is stark,” explains Bonnie Girard for the Diplomat. “Non-Chinese nationals cannot...
US-Sino trade tensions run high, especially since the arrest of a Huawei Technologies executive in Canada. Huawei reports it supplies equipment to 45 of the world’s 50 largest telecommunications companies, so the trade war could soon ensnare other nations like India. “Three of India’s top telephone...
Read the article from the Times of India how the US-China trade war and arrest of a Huawei executive impact India.
Nayan Chanda is a US-based journalist who writes columns for the Times of India and the founding editor of YaleGlobal Online.
The investigation by a team led by Robert Mueller has concluded with the US attorney general releasing a four-page summary. The investigators found no evidence that the US president or his aides conspired or coordinated with the Russian government’s interference into the 2016 election. “Barr also...
Iran has been public enemy number one for the Trump administration, with the United States withdrawing from the nuclear deal brokered by former President Barack Obama and imposing harsh sanctions. Iran’s oil exports and the economy as a whole is experiencing a harsh slowdown. Other nations abide by...
Some challenges are pervasive, so intertwined with other problems that societies give up, considering them impossible to tackle. Gender inequality, one such global concern, is linked to domestic and international conflict, radicalization and troubled economies, explains Joan Johnson-Freese,...
Inequality and security: Women in the West protest abuse in #MeToo movement, and elsewhere, women can also act as the eyes and ears for security in their communities
CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS: Gender equality is more often than not viewed as a social...
China’s fertility rate has barely budged even though the government has loosened its one-child policy for families. Population is linked to economic growth yet uncertainty combined with a rising living standard and cultural acceptance of small families contribute to the trends. China’s fertility...
