Worry and anger permeate the middle classes of Asia and the Americas, and in a world that is tightly interconnected, individuals perceive cross-border competition. During the US presidential campaign, President-elect Trump suggested that “unfair trade deals” had hurt US workers and communities, and...
If ever there was any doubt, the surprising election of Donald Trump has proved once again that hell hath no fury like a middle class scorned. The repressed anger that led voters to ignore all the President-elect’s glaring flaws has implications...
For the first time since animal domestication 10,000 years ago, a disease has spread from humans to animals. A new study from the University of Edinburgh shows how a version of the staph infection started in humans, spread to chickens, and then spread throughout the global poultry industry....
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Conventional wisdom suggests that a booming economy can protect China from all economic woes. But this two-part series argues otherwise. China’s resistance to rising prices – despite the global pressure raising costs for food and fuel – has distorted economic policies and only delays the reckoning...
Olympic bloat: China's effort to fight inflation by populist measures could hurt the country's long-term economic future
BEIJING: Conventional wisdom that a fast growing Chinese economy would be immune from global...
Turkey and Iran launched a joint attack against the Kurdish group PKK – the far left Kurdistan Workers Party – on Turkey’s eastern border, reports Anadolu Agency, adding Turkey for the first time has confirmed a raid. Turkish security forces have often clashed with PKK members and the country...
Since the financial crisis in 2008, many central banks have implemented easier monetary policies and other tools to stimulate economic growth. Due to those efforts, the interest rates have dropped in many countries, in turn reducing investment gains and swelling debt of pension funds. In some...
The 1989 Tiananmen Square protests led to iconic images, like the lone man, his identity unknown, confronting a line of Chinese People’s Liberation Army tanks. The ongoing protests in Hong Kong, which began in 2019, have already lasted more than twice as long as the Umbrella Movement and more than...
Struggle continues: Hong Kong’s lengthy protests since June 2019 provoke police shooting, and Tiananmen Square’s tank man from 1989 still inspires (Source: South China Morning Post)
IRVINE: In 1989, residents of cities across the People’s Republic...
International trade was already in retreat before the Covid-19. The pandemic will test cross-border supply chains, alliances, investments, travel and other connections. Douglas Irwin, writing for the Peterson Institute for International Economics, warns that protectionist steps to limit trade will...
When an American hockey player suffered symptoms from mercury contamination, he never expected that he might have power plants half way across the world in China to blame. With its growing appetite for energy, China is finding its many coal-burning power plants hard at work generating the much...
On a recent hazy morning in eastern China, the Wuhu Shaoda power company revved up its production of electricity, burning a ton and a half of coal per minute to satisfy more than half the demand of Wuhu, an industrial...
