Earn Billions in North Korea: Here’s How

By Shepherd Iverson This is not a parody for THE ONION, but a pragmatic proposal to reunify Korea with your money, in exchange for resource...

Yellen’s Twin Legacies – Powell’s Dilemma

By Jack Rasmus As Yellen leaves the Powell Fed with two contradictory legacies, the question of the day is which will the Powell Fed now...

AIIB: Experiments in Scaling-up Development Finance

By Daniel Poon Since its launch in January 2016, what are the significant developments on the operations of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB)? In...

Everything Changes, Nothing Changes

By Graham Vanbergen Just by looking at the everyday scenario across today’s industries, one can deduce how globalisation quite significantly changed things over the years....
South Korea’s 2018 Winter Games was located in Pyeongchang

Ensuring Olympic Success – After the Games

By Dr. Dan Steinbock As Olympic torch is moving toward emerging economies, it is time to come up with innovative solutions and appropriate cost controls...

Will the Chinese Rise Destroy Pax Americana in the Middle East?

By Timo Kivimäki China has started to make its presence felt in the Middle East. Most commentators assume this to lead into the destabilisation of...

Chinese Economy in 2018 and Beyond

By Dan Steinbock In the coming years, China shall aim at high-quality development, while seeking to forestall financial and international risks. The recent Central Economic Work...
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China’s One Belt, One Road Initiative Promotes China Over US

By Sara Hsu China’s One Belt One Road initiative is vast and promises to greatly expand China’s soft power in Asia, Europe, and Africa by...

Jerusalem – The Straw that Breaks the Empire’s Back?

By Peter Koenig   When President Trump on 6 December 2017 declared unilaterally Jerusalem as the capital of Israel to where the US Embassy shall relocate,...

Canada-China Trade Amid NAFTA Friction

By Dan Steinbock As tensions prevail in the NAFTA talks, Canada is hedging its bets by fostering consensus for a trade agreement with China.   On Sunday,...

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China’s Challenging Search for a New Model of Economic Growth

By Danny Leipziger China cannot continue to rely on exports to drive its growth, but what are the alternatives? China ran a $1.2 trillion trade surplus last year, and despite admonitions from the IMF to rely...

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