Tag: Economics

Mexico will elect a new president on June 2. For the first time in the country’s history, the two leading candidates are women: Claudia Sheinbaum and Xóchitl Gálvez. Sheinbaum represents ...

Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos, elected president of the Philippines in 2022 and the son of its infamous 10th president, was expected to continue his family’s close relationship with the Chinese embassy ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk meets with Sri Lanka’s president in Bali, the United States issues travel restrictions on a former ...

Earlier this year, McKinsey executives found themselves in serious political trouble. The Financial Times reported that their China branch had boasted in 2019 of its economic advice to the Chinese ...

If Israel needed any more evidence that it is rapidly turning into an international pariah because of the Gaza war, International Criminal Court Prosecutor Karim Khan provided it on Monday ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at China’s real estate crisis, aid deliveries to Gaza via a new U.S.-built pier, and rising antisemitism in France. Welcome back to ...

It is now well-known that Beijing has distorted certain markets in part by introducing massive subsidies. For example, China now produces electric vehicles that are widely seen as cheaper and ...

Comparative advantage is dead, it seems. U.S. President Joe Biden has introduced new tariffs on Chinese imports, moving them to 100 percent on electric vehicles, 25 percent on batteries, and ...

Welcome to Foreign Policy’s South Asia Brief. The highlights this week: An International Monetary Fund delegation arrives in Islamabad amid economic protests in Pakistani-administered Kashmir, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for ...

Welcome back to World Brief, where we’re looking at new U.S. tariffs on Chinese products, Georgia passing its foreign agents law, and extremism allegations in Germany’s popular far-right party. Welcome ...