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Not a single high-ranking Chinese official went to the airport to see off US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who ended his visit to China so ingloriously. What were the key issues that led to the failure of the most important negotiations for Washington? What did Blinken demand from China regardi...

China has expanded its arsenal of defensive trade tools with the introduction of a new law. Beijing has made it clear to its main trading partners, including the United States and a number of European countries led by Germany, that if they introduce tariffs and duties on the export products of the s...

By Rhod Mackenzie

On Friday, Chinese Foreign Minister Wang Yi met with visiting US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Beijing. During the meeting, Wang highlighted that while there has been an increase in positive interactions in the bilateral relations, there are also negative factors that are...

Washington will continue to impose sanctions against the Russian energy sector and related infrastructure, according to a statement released by US Deputy Energy Secretary Geoffrey Pyatt on Tuesday.
“We will continue to tighten the screws and continue to impose sanctions on a wide range of companies...

By Rhod Mackenzie

The US decision to seize frozen Russian assets will be advisory in nature, with the president able to reject it. This is due to the fact that the American financial elite does not want to jeopardise the power of the “No. 1 economy” over a few million dollars.
The bill was approv...

The expansion of the BRICS membership has led to an increase in the union's share of global production, from 32 to 37%, according to the World Trade Organization (WTO). This has resulted in the BRICS share becoming larger than that of the G7. The BRICS Digital Bank is confident that the influence of...