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Taku Eto may forever be known as Japan’s modern-day Marie Antoinette. At a time when the price of rice is at a record high, Eto, the country’s farm...
How much should British taxpayers pay to keep the royal family living in the style they’re accustomed? It’s a question few in the U.K. have...
The wise minds at Moody’s Investors Service finally acknowledged last week what the other two main credit rating agencies did years ago: America has...
As China and the United States leapfrog each other with staggering artificial intelligence innovations and the promise of quantum computing hurtles...
Casting your mind back to the China of 2003 almost feels like an exercise in historical fiction. With an economy barely larger than Italy’s, it was...
First, Prime Minister Shigeru Ishiba said he was not going to fire agriculture minister Taku Eto over a gaffe related to soaring rice costs. Then,...
U.S. President Donald Trump appears to be treating America’s allies more harshly than its rivals — a pattern underscored by his rollback of...
Japan is facing a changing world of tariffs, artificial intelligence and a potentially existential threat to its exports. Yet its approaching...
A decade ago this month, China launched Made in China 2025 (MIC2025), a 10-year program of economic restructuring so bold and controversial that...
It’s time for Superman to hang up his cape and the Avengers to disassemble. Hollywood’s new hero is here and his name is Steve. You might not...
In investing, narratives can matter a lot more than earnings or cash flow analysis. Pakistan is certainly spinning a good story about China’s...
Germany’s new chancellor, Friedrich Merz, has started with a dramatic promise: "The German government will provide all the financial resources the...
As global threats multiply, the United States Navy finds itself stretched thin across multiple regions. In Europe, it faces a drawn-out war in...
S&P Global Ratings stripped the U.S. of its coveted AAA credit rating in 2011 and Fitch Ratings did the same in 2023. Given how the country’s...
The problem of maritime plastic-waste pollution first became apparent in the 1970s. In the half-century since then, the problem has become ever...