Foreign Direct Investments are not necessarily in line with economic interests of the SEA-5 countries - by embracing open-handed commitments in credible partnerships, the super-powers could cement balance, securing growth and stability in South-East Asia
Strength of American trade and long-term investments will buttress a clear narrative of US engagement, balancing China's regional influence. A light touch, more trade venues and new industrial options could be explored to counter US' protectionist bent
Assess trends on Pinindices by charting the segments driving the stockmarket up or down. It might pay to watch the massive divergence between megacaps and small caps in the Total Market 1200 index
Sumo, a highly regimented Japanese sport, is embedded with rituals of mutual respect while China and the US, poking around in the diplomatic rule book without much luck, only seem to know of Sumo's pushing and shoving in the Western Pacific
The projection of Chinese power across the Pacific is a game-changer and a two-pronged strategy, asserting military power behind walls and letting trade flows trickle beyond, across the island archipelagos of the Pacific
To preserve a sense of common purpose within the framework of the EU Single Market, natural gas will have to be recognized as a long-term essential energy source - and not as a temporary band-aid
Losing ground against the US, Germany and France since 2007, poor British productivity is a currency crisis in the making. The gap grows wider, leaving Great Britain thoroughly unprepared for future geopolitical and economic disruptions
Mrs. Truss may have believed that the fabled transmutation of leaden ideology into golden opportunity was for real. No one was convinced and the bad actors of this poor show should be brought to account.
Aggression, once defined as hostile acts by men with guns, has transitioned as countries became dependent on global supply chains and digital communications. Globalization and open cloud-based software offer new venues of attack
To back-up India's neutral payment platform, for-profit complementary'rails' might be called upon to share regulatory tasks... How to rein in the digital titans on the largest global market is on everyone's mind...
The New Umbrella Entities (NUEs) for retail payments - the new Indian regulatory framework - bring together the titans of global social networks, e-commerce and Indian conglomerates - a billion dollar contest (many times over)
Healthcare demand in China is an overwhelming challenge - stretched to the limit by the expectations of a newly empowered middle class and pressured by desperate, impoverished and indebted families
Transparency is a knife cutting both ways as Nissan has found out the hard way when the firm's inspection team uncovered a key proposal supporting Mr. Ghosn's claims and management's own conflicts of interest
With the verdict of Carlos Ghosn's associate, Greg Kelly, expected in March, stark light will be cast on a legal case, obfuscated at every turn by Nissan and by Japan's prosecutors - about time too
To live up to the challenge and address the chronic diseases afflicting the population, biotech in China is committed for the long haul - R&D outcomes remain fickle and international license agreements get caught up in geopolitics
Already the largest drugs market after the US, with an aging population, more demanding patients and more combative families, China remains a tumultuous market place
