Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The suspicious death of Hunan province’s finance chief sparks speculation in China and beyond, a Japanese student is killed in a knife ...
The economy was undoubtedly the central issue in Sri Lanka’s presidential election on Sept. 21—unlike in past votes, when ethnic divides between the Sinhala Buddhist majority and the Tamil minority ...
On Aug. 22, China commemorated the 120th anniversary of the birth of former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping, whose market reforms catapulted China from famine-stricken communist backwater to global economic power. ...
Nate Silver’s first book, The Signal and the Noise, was published in 2012, at the peak of his career as America’s favorite election forecaster. The book was a 534-page bestseller. ...
On Sept. 21, 17 million Sri Lankans will cast their vote to select the country’s next president. This is the first popular election since the country defaulted on its sovereign ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: China announces plans to raise its retirement age for the first time, Beijing abruptly ends international adoptions, and Goldman Sachs and Citigroup ...
The U.S. Federal Reserve began raising interest rates several years ago to combat inflation. This week, after new data emerged about a weakened labor market and more general signs of ...
With inflation at its lowest level since 2021 and unemployment on the rise, market participants and observers are looking nervously at the Federal Reserve. Is it behind the curve again, ...
Chinese President Xi Jinping has promised to open his country’s vast economy to the world’s emerging nations, pledging on Sept. 5 to introduce a regime of zero tariffs for the ...
Welcome to Foreign Policy’s China Brief. The highlights this week: The U.S. Congress considers a series of bills targeting China as lawmakers return from summer recess, former Chinese Foreign Minister Qin Gang ...
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