While the world has focused on North Korea, the globe’s two biggest emerging economies are squaring off over their shared border. China and India’s borderlands, though geographically desolate and inhospitable, have been a hot spot for increasing military tension in recent months. The two giants are wrestling more broadly for hegemony in Asia, and given […]
Read moreA burst of global trade starting from the end of last year has been driving Asia’s economic growth, but it isn’t clear whether the region can count on it to continue. The recent step up in trade was sizable: South Korea, for one, reported that July exports jumped around 20 percent from the same month […]
Read morePresident Donald Trump’s Chief Strategist Steve Bannon didn’t mince his words about the White House’s outlook on China in a new interview published Wednesday by the American Prospect. The president on Monday signed a memorandum that could lead to a trade investigation of alleged Chinese theft of intellectual property. That came as Trump presses for […]
Read moreSilicon Valley joined a swelling backlash against neo-Nazi groups in the United States on Wednesday as more technology companies removed white supremacists from their services in response to weekend violence in Charlottesville, Virginia. Social media networks Twitter and LinkedIn, music service Spotify and security firm CloudFlare were among the companies cutting off services to hate […]
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