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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.

India, the world’s largest democracy, is showing an appetite for military rule — a potential indicator that the country’s nationalist politics are evolving. A majority of Indians, 53 percent, support military rule, according to a Pew Research Center survey released last week. India is one of only four countries that has a majority in favor of a military government, the American think tank said.

The UN has agreed the strongest ever economic and trade sanctions on North Korea, designed to choke off the supply of capital and energy. However, experts are warning that they will only work if they are complied with over the long term, amid fears that sympathetic nations to North Korea may try to circumvent them.

As the evolution of China’s financial markets continues, it is set to boost the yuan’s internationalisation. Within five years, China’s bond market, already worth US$9 trillion, is poised to surpass Japan’s to become the second-largest in the world. Key to the growth is a new law that requires local governments to borrow money from markets rather than banks.