As protests continue in Hong Kong, government officials and economists question the impact on the economy. For the city that was built on trade, and quickly became an epicenter for global markets, Hong Kong’s economy is already showing signs of...
Spare a thought for American spooks – their job category appears highly imperiled right now. At risk are perhaps less the jobs of US intelligence “field agents,” but rather the National Security Agency tech spies who make a living monitoring...
Imagine an issue that combines Britain’s legendary love of animals, Brexit, politics, religion and a dash of far-right populism – and you have the gruesome but inflammatory question of how to slaughter farm animals. Killed after being stunned, or a...
Chinese manufacturing has been moving south east to Asian countries like Vietnam. This process is predicted to create major changes to the economies of South East Asia’s countries. China has been the one of the world leaders in manufacturing, managing...
With India’s unemployment rate rising to a 45-year high at 6.1% in 2017/18 fiscal year, slowdown in the agriculture growth rate, and the GDP growth rate at 6.7% in 2017-18, can the country achieve the great Indian dream of five...
The second part of the 20th century was marked with the creation of many of today’s most powerful trade blocs. Emerging regions also have them, but their political posturing has made these trade blocs lack political power. These blocs have...
American farmers have endured the worst collateral damage of the United States – China trade war. Beijing imposed a 25-percent tariff on soybeans which compelled many private businesses to shift their imports from the U.S. to South American countries such...
China continues to seek out rare mineral resources in Africa to supply the country’s ever-growing consumption needs. By 2011, China’s investment in Africa’s mining industry had grown twenty-five times from 2011, reaching figures of $15.6 billion. As the world’s largest...
Corruption is the all-but inevitable underside of capitalism. That’s where there’s a profit motive, and where there’s the ability to maximise profit by illegal or unprincipled means without being punished. Because of this, individuals and organisations will generally use those...
Now that Boris Johnson is officially the new Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, his focus turns from talking about how to steer the UK out of its Brexit dilemma to actually fulfilling those promises. Carrying out his ideas will...