How might China respond? With some disquiet. China has long sought to end its dollar dominance. At a summit of the Shanghai Co-operation Organisation in Tianjin on September 1st, the organisation’s ...

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Y OU MAY think the place where national leaders gather to talk about the future of the world is Washington, DC, or perhaps the UN Headquarters in New York. In fact, as President Xi Jinping plays host ...

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Jerry’s predicament is exactly the bind Democrats find themselves in. They have lost the thread, and it is showing; of the 30 states that track voter registrations by party, the Democrats have lost ...

The frenzy has spilled over to cinemas; on a recent weekend theatres in several Anglophone countries held singalong showings.

A square foot of office is now as cheap as in 2010, after the global financial crisis. Some 8% of commercial-mortgage-backed ...

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Finland’s experience has been cited from the start of the war in Ukraine–both as a model to avoid and one perhaps to follow. Mannerheim’s speech was circulated in President Volodymyr Zelensky’s office ...

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