The escalating US-China trade war could last for months or years with uncertainty spreading throughout both economies. “China issued an official warning on Monday for Chinese students seeking to study in the United States, amid heightened tensions between the two countries,” reports Sarah Zhen for...
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...
Representatives of the American fashion industry are protesting a stipulation in the Trans-Pacific Partnership Trade Agreement that would reduce imports from China and require Vietnam to source textile materials from the United States and Mexico: “U.S. fashion brands oppose this approach, which...
HANOI – The U.S., aiming to bolster American exporters, is stipulating that countries joining its new Pacific trade zone cut back on imports from China – a proposal that is meeting resistance from businesses and officials who say it will disrupt...
Fiction has the power to deliver insights into complex social challenges, and in the words of China’s President Xi Jinping, “Great works have such a great power to move readers.” Xi is an avid reader, reports the People's Daily, and Victor Hugo is among his favorite authors. The French poet,...
Victor Hugo and the China divide: While a song from the Broadway adaptation of Les Misérables inspires Hong Kong protesters, Hugo's Hunchback of Notre Dame attracts Beijing theatergoers
IRVINE: Despite worldwide popularity for a Frenchman who died...
The US targeted killing of powerful commander Qasem Soleimani in Baghdad has united Iranians and their leaders call for retribution. Esmail Qaani vows to carry on Soleimani's work of orchestrating interventions and shadow wars throughout the Middle East, suggests, “The minimum retribution for...
Global trade and competition, recognition of declining resources, rising wage inequality and prices, along with instant communications – many forces of globalization are behind uprisings in Tunisia and Egypt. Widespread, well-publicized discontent has made oppression more difficult to enforce,...
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The world has become too dependent on oil for security and comfort. Conflicts leading to disruptions in oil supply were behind past price shocks, but the most recent shock has been largely spurred by tightening supply and rising demand from emerging economies, explains historian and journalist...
The green way: Japan, out front on the energy crisis, has achieved efficiency by
developing alternative-energy products, like this Mazda fuel-celled car
LONDON: With the price of oil rocketing to the unprecedented level...
