Chinese weakness a cause for global concern

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Which from the world’ s superpowers has emerged properly from the past three years of shocks – first the coronavirus pandemic and now Russia’ s invasion associated with Ukraine? The first answer is: None of them. The second answer, however , is the fact that while the weaknesses and vulnerabilities of all the superpowers are important, the most significant future issue […]

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For Donald Trump, information has always been power

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This story was originally published by ProPublica, a Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative newsroom. Ever since the FBI came out of Mar-a-Lago last month with box after box of documents, some of them highly sensitive and classified, questions have wafted over the criminal investigation: Why did former President Donald Trump sneak off with the stash to begin […]

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The amazing and unstoppable collapsing yen

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TOKYO – There’s something surreal about the debate at Bank of Japan (BOJ) headquarters over whether to jump into markets to support the yen. Japan’s central bank faces the most intense pressure in more than two decades to intervene in currency trading, but unlike previous pressure campaigns, the BOJ isn’t being prodded to weaken the yen […]

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