On the morning of Sunday, February 27, U.S. Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen sat huddled in a secure room with a group of other senior Treasury … Read the rest
Category: Economy
It Took Just Seven Words But NBA-China’s Viewership Is Approaching Pre-Ban Levels
It took just seven words for the National Basketball Association to get canceled by Beijing. As pro-democracy protesters swarmed the streets of Hong Kong in … Read the rest
Why Is There No Inevitability In China’s Decline To India’s Rise
Indian policymakers may be tempted into believing that China’s decline ordains India’s dizzy resurgence. But, in the end, whether or not India turns into the … Read the rest
Africa from Yesterday to Today
Having early on highlighted different areas, Africa remains a vast and abundant continent. Roughly ten times the size of India and three times the size … Read the rest
United States must do more to counter China
Competition with China has begun to consume U.S. foreign policy. Seized with the challenge of a near-peer rival whose interests and values diverge sharply from … Read the rest
Russia, Ukraine and the West
Economic and Real-Time Revolution
While labor productivity growth in five advanced economies has seen a downturn, as creators and workers realize their collective power in the coming months and years, these movements will grow in … Read the rest
The Importance of South East and East Asia Today
In the turbulent 2010s, a perspective from East Asian history that might have been useful was about the fragility of democracy. The story of post-war … Read the rest
From East to west and Back to east?
Some months ago, Patrick Karl O’Brien came out with an interesting book titled “The Economies of Imperial China and Western Europe”(15 Oct 2020), a subject that … Read the rest