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The CPTPP and Britain’s Pacific Rim engagement
With the UK joining CPTPP, the biggest trade agreement since Brexit, where will the UK benefit and be able to contribute? Read more →
Banking is too risky to be left to bankers
First published: The New European 20-03-2023
With any luck – and we will need some – the maelstrom going through the banking sector and global financial markets will blow over without triggering the kind of meltdown we experienced in 2008.
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Is China turning Japanese?
China has some advantages over Japan, such as a state-owned financial system that can prevent significant banks from failing and a closed capital account that can protect the country’s banking system and the economy from the risk of significant capital flight. This however might not prevent China from taking the same economic trajectory Japan has. Read more →
Has Xi Jinping Retired China’s ‘Wolf Warrior’ Diplomats?
China’s sharp diplomatic and foreign policy edges never really went away, but may have been rested temporarily simply for reasons of expediency. Read more →
China’s economy will rebound. But for how long?
A falling population and the political scars from its zero Covid policy present warning signs for China. Read more →