Ukraine brings IMF, World Bank back to Bretton Woods roots

Ukrainian Prime Minister Denys Shmyhal’s and Finance Minister Sergii Marchenko’s participation at the IMF and World Bank Spring Meetings last week in Washington in effect returned the multilateral organizations to their Bretton Woods origins, the 1944 agreement signed at a New Hampshire resort to rebuild the world economy after World War II. The International Monetary […]Continue Reading

Military violence in Myanmar is worsening

In the early days of a brutal 2021 military crackdown on anti-coup protesters in Myanmar, members of the nascent resistance movement began asking “how many dead bodies” it would take for the world community to act. More than two years on from a coup that installed military rule in the Southeast Asian country, pro-democracy protesters […]Continue Reading

Fentanyl, Russia trade spark new Sino-US friction

Political tensions between Beijing and Washington have increased again after the Biden administration sanctioned 12 Chinese firms for shipments to Russia and two others for supplying chemicals illicitly used in Mexico to produce the opioid drug fentanyl for the US market. The US Department of Commerce’s Bureau of Industry and Security (BIS) last week amended […]Continue Reading