The Iran war is reshaping the China-Gulf economic model

Closing the Strait of Hormuz has shown how the Gulf should shift from an oil-export model to a digital and distribution hub. Will this trigger the long-delayed free trade agreement with China?

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The Crisis of Currency Rates in Iran

[caption id="attachment_55256302" align="alignnone" width="940"] An Iranian woman walks past a mural on the wall of the former US embassy in the Iranian capital Tehran on May 8, 2018. (Getty Images)[…

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Taiwan Battles a Brain Drain

[caption id="attachment_55256284" align="alignnone" width="940"] Taiwanese high school graduates, wearing headbands reading "Victory", boost their morals in their crammed classroom in Taipei, 27 June…

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Is a Trade War the Only Option?

President Donald Trump’s forays into trade war statecraft—his embrace of steel and aluminum tariffs, and his soon to be revealed tariffs on Chinese products in response to alleged intellectual…

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Trump’s Tariffs Strategy

[caption id="attachment_55255847" align="alignnone" width="594"] U.S. President Donald Trump signs a proclamation on adjusting imports of steel into the United States next to steel and aluminum…

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How to Crack Down on Tax Havens

[caption id="attachment_55255779" align="alignnone" width="4256"] A logo of UBS swiss bank and swiss flag view through a window in Zurich on October 1, 2009. Switzerland's stock exchange is…

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Foreign Aid: Good, Bad, or a Bit of Both?

[caption id="attachment_55255667" align="aligncenter" width="3500"] A young boy rests by empty USAID vegetable oil tins in the Dagahaley refugee camp which makes up part of the giant Dadaab refugee…

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The Surprising Success of Putinomics

[caption id="attachment_55255633" align="aligncenter" width="3500"]Russian President Vladimir Putin arrives at the Congress of Russian Union of Industrialists and Entrepreneurs (RSPP) at the Ritz…

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The Two-Degree Delusion

[caption id="attachment_55255535" align="aligncenter" width="3600"] Children from the remote Turkana tribe in Northern Kenya dig a hole in a river bed to retrieve water.(Getty)[/caption] by Ted…

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