What just happened? Last month’s report that the US government was planning to restrict critical investments in China has proved accurate after President Biden signed an executive order introducing the ban. As with the chip-related sanctions, the government said the move will prevent China from improving its military, developing advanced weapons, and…

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Russia hopes to launch its first successful lunar landing mission for nearly 50 years, with a long-delayed takeoff from the far east of the country scheduled for early on Friday morning that the Kremlin aims to tout as a new achievement in space exploration.

Russia hopes for its first successful lunar…

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About the author: Leslie Lipschitz is former director of the IMF Institute, has taught at Johns Hopkins University and Bowdoin College, been a guest scholar at the Brookings Institution, and an advisor at Investec Asset Management.

China, Russia, and a number of emerging market countries have long resented the so-called exorbitant privilege…

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The Defence Ministry of India is taking measures to address the increasing cyber and malware attacks on critical infrastructure. Reportedly, they’re transitioning from Windows to an open-source operating system like Maya, based on Ubuntu. Open-source systems tend to provide greater transparency and allow for continuous security auditing, which can help identify and…

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Capitol Hill lawmakers from both parties immediately pledged to go further in the coming months after President Biden announced his effort to prohibit Americans from investing in some Chinese companies.

The president’s executive order was announced Wednesday and looks to block American capital from heading to specific Chinese semiconductor, quantum computing and artificial…

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I think on any metric my tenure as a British MP was a little challenging. I was a Jewish Labour female MP, representing a Leave seat at a time when Brexit was the hot political topic and Jeremy Corbyn was leader of the Labour Party.

Baroness Anderson: We must stand up…

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What I am looking at Thursday, Aug. 10 Cooler-than-expected July consumer price index pretty much takes even slim odds of a Fed interest rate hike off the table at next month’s meeting. Airline fares are down. Weekly jobless claims 248,000 versus 230,000 expected.

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Yantai-based Wanhua Chemical unveiled its comprehensive Environmental, Social, and Governance report in which the company promises to achieve peak carbon emissions before 2030 and strive to achieve carbon neutrality by 2048 in line with the Greenhouse Gas Protocol’s Scope 1 and Scope 2, which refer to direct emissions that are owned or controlled by a

Wanhua Chemical Reveals China Sustainability Goals In Latest ESG Report comes from…

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“We are pleased by the early trading in FY24, with all our key markets performing strongly. Cettire is well positioned for another strong year of growth and profitability. We are well advanced in our preparations for China market entry, which remains a very attractive market opportunity and offers significant incremental growth potential,” Mr…

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President Joe Biden with President Xi Jinping of China ahead of the G20 meeting in Bali, Indonesia, last year. Photograph: Doug Mills/The New York Times

President Joe Biden imposed limits on US investments in China as part of a push to restrict the country’s ability to develop next-generation military and surveillance technologies that…

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