-Analysis- Two years ago Chinese President Xi Jinping — in the wake of the twin election victories of Brexit and Donald Trump — arrived at the Davos World Economic Forum as the would-be savior ...
The growing alarm after UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal suffered a defeat in Parliament isn’t just unsettling for British politics. Global businesses are on edge as well. Asian ...
-OpEd- TOKYO — The United States has turned to inward-looking politics, while the unifying force of Europe has waned due to rampant populism and confusion in Britain, Germany and France. The ...
It's high-time for an economic model that curbs waste while boosting productivity. But don...
-Analysis- PARIS — Did they really have to set France on fire for just a few cents? More than eight weeks after it began, the revolt of the "yellow vests" still seems hard to grasp. For ...
Standing alone against the United States and China, Europe must wake up in 2019. And come together.
LE MONDE Monstrous Times Call For Monstrous Fiction: A French Manifesto Against the omnipotence of "reality-show novels" and costume fiction, a group of young French authors want to reassert ...
If Brazil's new government liberalizes its economy as vowed, it may also seek new and more dy...
There is a lot of planning behind the Christmas window decorations you find around the French cap...
SEOUL — A recently retired senior manager from South Korean electronics giant Samsung is back to work — in China. Referred to just by his last name, Kim, had been executive director ...
The new president is hoping to strike what has tended to be an elusive balance in Latin America: ...
-Analysis- NEW YORK — What a difference two decades make. In 1997, China's gross domestic product was about 11% of the U.S's. By 2017, it was up to 63%. But this overstates the difference in ...
Monopolistic companies may be near a tipping point where people (and governments) want them reign...
The letter bearing the reference "MC/19/3" represents a novelty in Chinese-African relations. Kabineh Kallon, Sierra Leone's Minister for Transport and Aviation, explains in sober tones that, ...
WASHINGTON — I loved Amazon when it first appeared. It was the 1990s, and I was living in Italy and then China, two countries that are strongly monolingual with a scarce number of foreign-language ...
After being left behind in the Internet revolution, places like France, Malta and Switzerland are...
Spain, an industralized EU member with close ties to Latin America, could profit from easing the ...
MUNICH — The past snuck up on Adidas last spring when it issued a retro jersey for the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia that copied the last Soviet Union national team shirt. It included the USSR ...
Policymakers have, for the most part, learned to avoid fiscal deficits. And yet, growth numbers (...
These informal banks in Kenya help women acquire financial stability, to help them take control o...
Will slow growth rates persist in a global dynamic of "secular stagnation?" Or will the IT revolu...
German car makers must change their entire model, and even accept lower short-term profits.
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