カテゴリー: Globalisation
Lasting damage has been done not only to Trump’s political credibility but to globalisation as a systemAt the beginning of this helter-skelter week, Downing Street was declaring globalisation not only dead but a failure. Now, only five trading days lat…
Covid has amplified the threats that accompany the country’s role as an economic superpowerChina has been central to the story of globalisation over the past 30 years but now it is struggling. More than two years after Covid-19 cases were discovered in…
From China backtracking on coal to Britain’s ‘chicken king’ calling for a rethink of food production, the virus has accelerated nationalist impulses towards autarkyWhen Xi Jinping promised the world’s movers and shakers in January 2017 that China would…
Himalayan kingdom is latest country to recognise the Jewish state in a normalisation dealIsrael established diplomatic relations with the Himalayan kingdom of Bhutan on Saturday, the Israeli foreign ministry said, in the latest of a string of normalisa…
A coordinated response to the crisis in the Americas, India and Africa must be led by countries that have suppressed the virusCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageIt took more than three months for the world to record 1 million c…
The leaders have waged a bitter war of words over Covid-19 and both are eager to shore up their base at home. We examine the looming new confrontationForeign policy does not usually draw much attention in US election campaigns. It was given a few token…
Horror over the west’s failure to contain Covid-19 will pale by comparison if it sweeps the developing worldCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageThough Africa has fewer coronavirus cases and a slower rate of infection than the UK…
A welcome critique of global finance is admirably angry but fails to properly identify the crisis brewing in BeijingThe great dividing line in economics – ever since its birth – is how to think about money. Are money and the financial systems through w…