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Tuesday 18/September/2018 20:44 PM

Trump tariffs only a weak blow to China

China is fully prepared to win any kind of tariff war that Donald Trump can throw at it with some quite simple stratagems that might all be grouped under a...

Tuesday 18/September/2018 15:20 PM

The siren song of left-wing populism

Social democratic parties around the world are struggling. In France’s 2017 presidential election, the candidate for the Socialists – once the...

Tuesday 18/September/2018 15:18 PM

Has Putin’s popularity bubble burst?

From controlling the media to stoking nationalism, Russian President Vladimir Putin has always known how to keep his approval ratings high. But Russians’...

Tuesday 18/September/2018 15:07 PM

The global economy’s fundamental weakness

When Lehman Brothers declared bankruptcy ten years ago, it suddenly became unclear who owed what to whom, who couldn’t pay their debts, and who would go...

Tuesday 18/September/2018 14:45 PM

Merkel takes a gamble with new immigration law

Chancellor Angela Merkel hopes a new immigration law will make it easier for foreign workers to find jobs in Germany, but her push to fill a record number...

Monday 17/September/2018 15:34 PM

What is threatening science?

Scientific knowledge and technological innovation, as Yuval Noah Harari emphasizes in his book Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, are among the key...