In his 3rd address to World Economic Forum, Chinese President Xi Jinping said 'we need to resolve various risks and promote the steady recovery of the world economy'.
The impact of Covid pandemic has been profoundly disproportionate across different segments of populations and disrupted the development roadmap for South Asian economies.
By helping relocate production that doesn’t make sense for it to places like Taiwan, Vietnam, and India, US can move to secure its allegiance through job creation and investment.
The drop in international commerce was quick and steep during the first Covid lockdowns, but a rebound fueled by emergency fiscal and monetary stimulus has been almost as sharp.
The RCEP will bind the 10 economies of Southeast Asia with China, Japan, S. Korea, Australia & New Zealand. To provide a counterweight, the US needs the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Growth in foreign investment in Vietnam's Bac Giang province is almost doubling every year and the province forecasts exports value to reach $11 billion, a tenfold leap in 6 years.
With govts having to fund trillions of dollars in bailout packages for businesses, finding extra capital to restructure global supply chains is a tall order.
The 2 countries have been in a bitter trade war since last month when Japan imposed export controls on 3 essential chemicals used to make memory chips, which is among Korea’s top exports.
Across the varied reading of the NSS in Chinese media, one thread recurs: The more Trump leans toward isolationism, the more volatile the global order is likely to become.
Clean energy is “no longer the sideshow, it is the show”, BVR Subrahmanyam told the Odisha summit, warning India to lead the global shift or risk others’ tech dominance.
Dubai airshow crash & pilot death have rekindled concerns over pilot safety, and need for smarter automated systems that can step in when G-forces, temporary loss of consciousness hit the pilot.
None of Pakistan’s PMs has lasted 5 years. That the current PM has given Asim Munir 5 years shows that of all military dictatorships history has seen, Pakistan’s is most creative.
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