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Macroscope | The sun is setting on the US dollar, but what could replace it?

“How low can the dollar go?” queried the headline of a recent Financial Times article in which Barry Eichengreen, a…

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Chinese EV makers pressed to accelerate global expansion amid tariff challenges

Chinese electric-vehicle (EV) companies should speed up their “go global” push regardless of tariffs and barriers set in their path,…

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Macroscope | How Trump’s reckless policies could trigger a financial crisis

How much does politics matter to financial markets? Many investors believe political risk has a stronger bearing on sentiment towards…

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EU moves to curb steel imports to protect military industrial base from China overcapacity

As Europe scrambles to rearm its militaries, Brussels has trained its crosshairs on a long-standing trade problem that it now…

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Macroscope | Trump’s trade war is giving Europe and China the nudge they need

Investors’ sudden loss of confidence in “American exceptionalism” – the notion that US assets should be valued more highly because…

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At ‘two sessions’, China takes aim at an insidious economic foe: ‘neijuan’

China has signalled its plans to up the ante in its fight to stamp out the excessive, cutthroat competition plaguing…

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Opinion | Reciprocal tariffs are nothing short of an attack on world trade

US President Donald Trump described his reciprocal tariffs as the “big one”. Although he habitually exaggerates his claims, the world…

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Opinion | China could be the steady counterweight to Trump’s Pax Americana

After returning to the White House last month, US President Donald Trump is not simply doing the same things he…

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Opinion | How China’s trade war playbook could avoid Japan’s mistakes

The opening salvoes in the newest phase of the US-China trade war have been launched, sending tremors across the global…

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Opinion | As Trump’s trade war gathers steam, China and Europe must cooperate

Global trade tensions have escalated sharply in recent weeks after US President Donald Trump launched a series of aggressive tariff…

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