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Tuesday 25/September/2018 15:49 PM

The US will lose its trade war with China

The United States cannot win its tariff war with China, regardless of what President Donald Trump says or does in the coming months. Trump believes that he...

Tuesday 25/September/2018 15:24 PM

The case against climate despair

Heat waves and extreme-weather events across the Northern Hemisphere this summer have brought climate change back to the forefront of public debate. Early...

Tuesday 25/September/2018 14:48 PM

The left will decide Poland’s future

On October 21, Poland will hold local elections, which will be followed by the European Parliament elections in May 2019, national parliamentary elections...

Monday 24/September/2018 14:28 PM

Emerging markets’ shifting bottom line

One truism of the last three decades is that emerging markets are a leveraged play on global growth: they outperform when developed economies are growing,...

Monday 24/September/2018 14:23 PM

Hurricanes at the ballot box

Hurricane Florence, which smashed into the southeastern United States recently, is the latest in a string of extreme weather events that has raised...

Monday 24/September/2018 14:21 PM

MAD about Sino-American trade

Now that US President Donald Trump has imposed a 10 per cent tariff on yet another $200 billion worth of Chinese imports, the US-China trade war has entered...

Monday 24/September/2018 14:19 PM

Europe’s refugee scandal

It has long been known that the Moria refugee camp on the Greek island of Lesbos is plagued by overcrowding, unsanitary conditions, and rampant violence,...