Myanmar’s armed conflicts threaten to complicate and divert various regional integration schemes, including China’s One Belt, One Road initiative By Christopher Briggs This week a super tanker steamed towards Myanmar’s Kyaukpyu port […]
Authorities struggle to get to grips with crime gangs trafficking young Vietnamese into the UK to work in slave-like conditions on massive indoor marijuana farms By Richard Cook A 16-year-old Vietnamese boy, […]
Strong upstream commodities rally helps state-owned sector contribute 23% of overall earnings By Steve Wang Profits in China’s industrial sector surged 31.5% during January and February, with the ruling Communist […]
For nearly two decades, Poipet was a one-trick pony, relying on the casinos huddled around its Thai border crossing for its economic fortune. But now a different type of cluster is […]
The establishment of a clearing bank in Moscow for handling transactions in Chinese yuan is an important step facilitating more bilateral trade and investment Russia and China are developing their economic co-operation […]
Setting aside more than a decade of niggles, Moscow and Beijing find common cause in fending off US containment is strong enough to rekindle ties By Bill Gertz After curbing arms […]
Alibaba Group’s support for Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak’s digital economy initiative is the latest indication of burgeoning bilateral ties By David Hutt, @davidhuttjourno Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak and Alibaba […]
US miner Freeport McMoran’s dispute with the government could intensify as workers lose jobs and top US politicians take special interest in the case By John McBeth During a recent presentation to […]
By Doug Tsuruoka March 2017 A US$100 billion war chest is likely to court the type of Chinese investors previously barred from involvement in strategic technologies Japanese technology tycoon Masayoshi Son announced […]
By Helen Clark Australia-Indonesia ties are still at bay despite a recent public show of restored defense relations and moves afoot to deepen economic ties Indonesian President Joko Widodo’s official visit […]
By Emanuele Scimia Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wants to boost connections with both China and India. Israel’s growing military and defense cooperation with Delhi, however, could make this simultaneous courting tricky. […]
By editor of The International Reporter The most important bank in the world received a huge deposit of 50,000 last week. Not 50,000 dollars; 50,000 seed samples. The most important bank in […]
Pepe Escobar Europe, relatively integrated, lives today in a de facto two-speed reality. Eurasia integration, a work in progress and with vastly more reach, is for the moment a three-speed process, as […]
Australia is rightly concerned about the possibility of a trade war between China and the US, given its economic dependence on Chinese trade, Wang Zhimin of China’s Institute of Foreign Economy and […]
By Altay Atli China’s “One Belt, One Road” (OBOR) is a grand plan of enhanced connectivity between countries of the Eurasian landmass, promising infrastructure development, increased trade, welfare creation through joint investments […]
