Tag: Economics

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at Lebanon’s new head of state, destructive wildfires in Los Angeles County, and a deadly attack on Chad’s presidential palace. Forming a ...

U.S. President-elect Donald Trump has threatened tariff hikes on the United States’ largest trading partners, but China seems to be in the most immediate line of fire as his inauguration ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief, and happy New Year. There will be many questions about South Asia and the world this year: how the region adjusts to a second ...

At the start of each year, Foreign Policy asks some of our columnists for the one key issue they’ll be watching in the year ahead. This year, it goes without ...

This was another dire year for China’s economy, with no end in sight to the problems that began during the COVID-19 pandemic. Beijing seems poised to do whatever it takes ...

On Friday, in an early morning social media post, U.S. President-elect Donald Trump issued a clear threat to the European Union: make up for the “tremendous deficit with the United ...

Less than a week after Washington ratcheted up its chip export controls, Beijing responded with a pointed escalation on Dec. 9: an antitrust probe into Nvidia, the United States’ leading ...

Addis Ababa’s main avenues are getting a facelift. The Ethiopian capital is adding maroon bike lanes, tree-lined verges, and new storefronts in regulation gray to its biggest streets. Prime Minister ...

The price of bitcoin went over $100,000 for a few hours on Dec. 5, peaking at $103,400. The financial press can’t resist constructing a hand-waving story of market forces, so ...

There is vigorous movement afoot, in the weeks before U.S. President-elect Donald Trump graces the White House again, to seize the entirety of Russia’s frozen overseas assets and use that ...