Humming along. Chinese exports continue to hum along, according to new August figures, despite deeply disruptive, pandemic-related closures at major ports and a number of manufacturing facilities. Meanwhile, China’s ability to sustain its ban on imports of Australian coal is being tested as Chinese industrial production continues to surge. British deployment. The United Kingdom is […]
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In 2020, the European Union was still recovering from the 2008 global financial crisis – and the subsequent sovereign debt crisis of...
Surprise announcement. Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga abruptly announced he would step down later this month. Suga, the long-time right-hand man behind all-powerful former...
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Zelensky in Washington. U.S. President Joe Biden and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky are set to meet at the White House on Wednesday. Zelensky is...
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Chinese slowdown. China's services sector is getting slammed by the COVID-19 delta variant, with sporadic lockdowns in China over the past month leading to...
For a generation, Chile has been an outlier in Latin America. Between its economic development, per capita gross domestic product, strong institutions and general...
Background: Central Asia buffers Russia from the ongoing instability in Afghanistan, but Moscow fears that increased migration and the threat of terrorism and extremism...
