Month: November 2018

Taiwan’s new president is leading a charge to boost economic ties with Southeast Asia, and away from mainland China. The reality is that the shift is already well underway.

Japan’s economy grew faster than expected between January and March, boosting hopes that the economy is recovering from last year’s recession. The economy expanded 0.6% in the period compared to the previous quarter, marking its second consecutive quarter of growth.

Nitin Pai, Director of the Takshashila Institution participated in the the 15th Doha Forum 2015 & Enriching the Middle East’s Economic Future Conference, held between 11th and 14th May, 2015 in Doha, Qatar.

China released official gross domestic product (GDP) figures on Tuesday showing that 2015 had the slowest level of economic growth in the country in the past 25 years. While this is troubling for the sputtering global economy, some analysts say that the data should not be too much cause for concern.

China released official gross domestic product (GDP) figures on Tuesday showing that 2015 had the slowest level of economic growth in the country in the past 25 years. While this is troubling for the sputtering global economy, some analysts say that the data should not be too much cause for concern.

Cyrus Mistry, sources close to him say, has high regard for Softbank. So when Masayasi Son, the founder of the $68 billion tech investment behemoth, chose Bharti Airtel’s Sunil Bharti Mittal as his ally in India, the senior leadership in Bombay House, the corporate headquarters of the Tata Group, was not amused.

On trade, President Trump used his favourite three words – fair, free and reciprocal. This would have been the part of his State of the Union speech that Beijing will have likely paid the most attention to (oh, and the part where he lumped the Chinese as a threat to American values along with terrorists, rogue regimes and Russia).

South Korean foreign policy is set for a broad revamp under the next president amid expectations for friendlier ties with Pyongyang and delayed deployment of a controversial missile defense technology — two areas of paramount concern for U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson when he visits the country later this week.

With a leadership committed to more open global trade, China is rapidly emerging as a powerful driver of globalization and championing initiatives that could redraw the international trade map.