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China aims to break US high-tech stranglehold
Jan 19, 2020 20:29The countdown has started for the Chinese Ministry of Science and Technology to compile its wish-list for China’s next five-year blueprint. Major “industrial players” will be asked for their input before the S&T drafts its 14th Five-Year Plan from 2021 to 2025. They will include Alibaba, Tencent and Baidu, or the BAT grouping, along with Huawei and ZTS, as well as a host of state-owned enterprises.
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Why Asia could soon dominate responsible investing
Jan 12, 2020 10:16Lisa Beauvilain, Head of Sustainability and ESG at Impax Asset Management says businesses in Asia have made progress on establishing investor relations teams.
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Debt will kill the global economy, but it seems no one cares
Jan 10, 2020 09:33The World Bank said emerging-market and developing economies (EMDEs) had pushed their borrowing to a record $55 trillion (£42 trillion) in 2018.
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Iran-China-Russia combined naval exercise: A security trilateral to counter US presence
Jan 03, 2020 17:09Iran and its allies can maintain regional security without any need to foreign forces, says a top Iranian military commander following naval maneuvers jointly carried out by the Islamic Republic, Russia and China in the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean. The drills kicked off on Friday and covered 17,000 square kilometers consisting of various tactical exercises, such as target practice and rescuing ships from assaults and fires.
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Free trade elusive for China, Japan, South Korea
Jan 03, 2020 16:34The annual China, Japan and South Korea summit wrapped up recently in Chengdu, China, with attending leaders making generalized commitments to free trade and regional peace and security.
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The secret of tripartite drills: U.S. loses its influence in the region
Jan 01, 2020 22:01The Islamic Revolution Guards Corps (IRGC) says Naval maneuvers jointly carried out by Iran, Russia and China in the Sea of Oman and the Indian Ocean have caused fear and horror among those countries attempting to undermine security in the region. Speaking to reporters on Monday Dec. 30, the IRGC Spokesman Brigadier General Ramezan Sharif said countries that care about regional security were pleased by the joint maneuvers.
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In Asia Pacific climate crisis is happening now, not in future
Dec 26, 2019 08:18Many big Asian cities, including Mumbai, Shanghai, Bangkok, and Jakarta, are coastal and low-lying, making them susceptible to sea level rise and other extreme weather events.
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Hypocritical politicians put HK before Puerto Rico
Dec 23, 2019 16:38People of Puerto Rico have served in the US armed forces, pay US taxes and have fulfilled every obligation demanded of them as US citizens and yet when laws are passed in Washington that will affect everyone on the island, its people don’t have any say.
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High time for NATO’s end for the sake of global peace
Dec 13, 2019 14:15"NATO is the cause of the new arms race with Russia, including upgrading of nuclear arsenals. Therefore, the sooner it is disbanded the better for world peace and stability, since a relic of the cold war shouldn’t be reconfigured to prolong the US domination of Europe, or to pick up fights with Russia, China, and the Resistant Front of the Muslim World, or to launch suicidal space wars."
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Too many risks for emerging markets to get lift from China data
Dec 10, 2019 19:58Markets are waiting for China’s response after US President Donald Trump signed a bill backing Hong Kong’s protesters, a move that could complicate the signing of the phase one trade deal. China’s foreign ministry recently reiterated a threat of retaliation.