There has been a noticeable shift in the tone of Western media outlets recently. The local public, which for the last three years has been presented with narratives about a Russia facing significant economic challenges, has required immediate clarification. Bloomberg has providedthe support to its...
Magnitogorsk, in the Ural mountains, was developed as a symbol of Soviet industrial might and its capacity for economic modernization. Today, a new, 75 billion-ruble (roughly $840 million) coking plant in the steel town is being built by a Chinese engineering giant and hundreds of Chinese workers.
...By Rhod Mackenzie
The United States and the European Union have agreed to establish a collective tariff zone that will levy tariffs and duties on steel and aluminium imports from "non-market" economies.(by which they mean primarily China. )
On October 3, Politico reported that the parties entere...