China’s Africa Strategy Is Shifting From Extraction to Investment – Driven From the Industry-Rich...
By Lauren Johnston
China experienced a massive economic boom in the 1990s and 2000s which increased its demand for resource imports, like oil, from Africa. This led...
Toward BRICS Currencies in the Post-dollar Era
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
In the BRICS Summit, a key item in the agenda was the further development of new and complementary reserve cuarrencies...
How Gender Inequality Is Hindering Japan’s Economic Growth
By Sarah Parsons
Japan’s economy is under pressure from rising energy prices and defence costs and the impact of the pandemic. Plummeting birth rates and...
How A Weaponized Dollar Is Internationalizing the Yuan
By Dan Steinbock
The multipolarization of the global reserve currency system is accelerating. Ironically, Western sanctions against Russia have intensified the move away from the...
Myths of China’s Global Inflation, Deflation Risks
By Dr. Dan Steinbock
In early spring, international pundits portrayed China’s...
China’s Gallium and Germanium Controls: What They Mean and What Could Happen Next
By Gavin D. J. Harper
From August, China is to restrict exports of gallium and germanium, two critical elements for making semiconductor chips. With China dominating the...
Why China’s 45-Year Reform Anniversary Matters Globally
By Dan Steinbock
At the 45-year anniversary of economic reforms and opening-up, China’s continental economy is driving global economic prospects and...
China’s Economic Recovery Is Built on Increasingly Shaky Foundations and That Could Affect the...
By Kent Matthews
Confidence in China’s post-COVID recovery has started to waver over the past week after the world’s second-largest economy reported disappointing figures for...
US Wargames: Philippines Faces Tumultuous Years
By Dan Steinbock
According to the Philippines' new, stated foreign policy, Manila is “a friend to all and an enemy to none.” But...
What the Right Gets Wrong About Adam Smith
By Conor O'Kane
What to make of Adam Smith? You might have thought we would have straightened this out, given that he only ever wrote...
