Beyond the first battle for Taiwan

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If there is a war over Taiwan, an extended Chinese blockade is likely to determine the outcome. While a blockade might include intercepting ships at sea, the primary focus would be on sealing airfields and ports, particularly on the west coast of Taiwan. China could sustain that type of blockade indefinitely. Penetrating a prolonged blockade […]Continue Reading

Visa: Card Payments Overtake Cash Usage In Singapore

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Popularity of mobile contactless payment is increasing
Almost all Singapore consumers in study use cards for payment Card payments have overtaken cash to become the most-used payment method in Singapore, according to the latest edition of Visa’s Consumer Payment Attitudes Study. 
This study was conducted in October 2022 by CLEAR with 1,000 Singaporeans…Continue Reading

China in a hard pivot to more supply-side reforms

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Ten years ago, when China’s leader first took power, Xi Jinping pledged to let market forces play a “decisive” role in economic policy and financial regulation. At the time, and since, foreign investors assumed that meant the government would set the private sector free. Yet a decade on, Xi is now making an argument few […]Continue Reading