By Rhod Mackenzie
The US Senate on Tuesday backed a bill that requires US companies to report their investments in certain Chinese technology sectors, including semiconductors and artificial intelligence (AI), to federal government. The move is seen as the latest US efforts to impede China's techn...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The IMF said on Tuesday that China's underperforming recovery is dragging down the global economic recovery, despite keeping its forecast for China's GDP growth unchanged.
While the IMF maintained its forecast of 5.2 percent economic growth for China this year, it still mention...
By Rhod Mackenzie
The European Union is looking at the adoption of a new package of sanctions against Russia by the end of 2023 . This was reported by the EU Foreign Service. The association is already preparing the 12th list of measures. However, according to the MEPs, there are no specifics yet,...
By Rhod Mackenzie
A number of banks in Russia's neighboring countries - primarily in Central Asia - have refused to work with the Russian Unistream payment system. So the United States, with the threat of the use of sanctions, is trying to break Moscow's financial and trade ties with the Central A...
By Yaroslav Lissovolik
The upcoming BRICS summit in South Africa is set to reveal the criteria as well as possibly the composition of the next wave of BRICS members and/or members of the expanded BRICS+ alliance. In many respects this is set to be one of the most significant BRICS summits in the p...
By Andrey Sushentsov.
In the current international crisis has created a similar situation: the United States is again acting more flexibly towards Russia than the Europeans. Washington, on the one hand, is trying to offer its own scenario, which is unacceptable for Russia; on the other hand, the A...