Ghosts of 1997 and 2008 stir as Iran spooks markets
TOKYO — Asia is seeing ghosts again. One apparition amid tight credit markets dates to the 2007-2008 global…
Nvidia halts H200 production as China backs Huawei AI chips
Nvidia has reportedly halted production of its H200 artificial-intelligence (AI) chips intended for China amid rising political tensions…
When AI becomes our politics and economics
Machines are now performing activities that absolutely refuse classification under traditional economic models. They do not harvest wheat.…
Hainan Free Trade Port is the future of globalization
For decades, globalization was widely accepted as an almost inevitable trajectory. The more open an economy, the prevailing…
The rising risk of China turning Japanese
The world today is witnessing an unsettling sense of economic deja vu. Beneath the gleaming skyline of Shanghai…
China moving early as confidence in US debt frays
China is urging its biggest banks to curb their exposure to US Treasuries, a calculated intervention in the…
Economic nationalism giving rise to a zero-sum world
The world we inhabit today bears little resemblance to the one imagined by the architects of the global…
In Iran, don’t expect a Libya scenario
The Trump administration has fundamentally changed direction on Iran. US NATO Ambassador Matt Whitaker says the US will…
Silicon shock is the big ‘26 theme
In the early 2000s, the world of fine spirits broke. Demand for aged whiskey and fine wine exploded…
First and second largest economies in charts and figures
One is the loneliest number that you’ll ever do.Two can be as bad as one.It’s the loneliest number…
Why the IMF thinks China has a zombie problem
During her recent visit to Beijing, International Monetary Fund head Kristalina Georgieva connected the dots between China and…
China’s big layoff wave now buffeting its tech sector
China’s long‑running wave of corporate layoffs is spreading from manufacturing and property to the technology sector, with some…