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Reuters: Yuan catapults China to second-biggest trade funding currency

11:49 22.11.2023

Reuters: Yuan catapults China to second-biggest trade funding currency

Global companies are making a beeline for China's debt markets, issuing record amounts of yuan-denominated bonds and borrowing heavily from mainland banks, capitalizing on rock-bottom yuan interest rates as funding costs elsewhere jump. The surge in their borrowing from Chinese banks has catapulted the yuan past the euro into becoming …

Redefining success in Ukraine: They are thinking in America how to deceive Russia

11:45 21.11.2023

Redefining success in Ukraine: They are thinking in America how to deceive Russia

America is very tired of the war in Ukraine. Leading strategic experts offer their options for how to resolve the situation in the interests of the United States. It’s so interesting to read that Washington is ready for a truce between Kyiv and Moscow in order to turn it into …

US Navy at the Middle East: Another day – another war…

11:44 21.11.2023

US Navy at the Middle East: Another day – another war…

A massive US naval deployment in a wide arc of the so-called Greater Middle East is under way — stretching from Crete in the Eastern Mediterranean, into the Red Sea and the Bab el Mandeb and into the Gulf of Aden and all the way into the Gulf of Oman. …

POLITICO: The fall of geopolitical Europe

11:43 21.11.2023

POLITICO: The fall of geopolitical Europe

The EU’s approach to Ukraine held the premise of showing what a geopolitical Europe, as a peninsula of Eurasia, could mean – the Middle East reveals its demise, writes at POLITICO Nathalie Tocci, a director of the Istituto Affari Internazionali, a part-time professor at the European University Institute and a …

Another "Gas Game" behind the war in Gaza

11:40 21.11.2023

Another "Gas Game" behind the war in Gaza

Huge energy reserves in the Gaza EEZ: at least one trillion cubic meters of natural gas! The Gaza war finally appears to be hiding much more than meets the eye, as it brings the energy sector and oil fields in the Eastern Mediterranean into the equation of terror, writes Greece …

What European policymakers should learn from Global public opinion

11:33 20.11.2023

What European policymakers should learn from Global public opinion

New polling suggests western public opinion is not convinced that this is a winnable war, writes ‘The Financial Times’. Amid Republican opposition to additional US funding for Kyiv’s war effort and a refocusing of attention towards the Middle East, western support for Ukraine cannot be taken for granted. Europeans are …

Newsweek: How to solve Ukraine's GOP problem?

11:31 20.11.2023

Newsweek: How to solve Ukraine's GOP problem?

Ukraine has a Republican problem, Newsweek stresses. With primary season well underway, three of five GOP front runners for the presidential nomination are openly denigrating American support for the war-torn nation. During Wednesday's debate, Florida Govenor Ron DeSantis dismissed President Joe Biden's latest request for billions in Ukraine funding and …

Bloomberg: Russia’s key economic sectors shrug off sanctions

11:28 20.11.2023

Bloomberg: Russia’s key economic sectors shrug off sanctions

Russia’s third quarter growth hits 5.5%, outpacing estimates. Recovery shows limits of sanctions to punish Moscow over war. Key sectors of Russia’s economy are adapting and in some cases completely rebounding from unprecedented international sanctions imposed over the war in Ukraine, notes Bloomberg with a slight surprise. Russia’s economic growth …

A trap of American wars: There is not enough ‘Patriot’ for everybody

11:27 20.11.2023

A trap of American wars: There is not enough ‘Patriot’ for everybody

The U.S. military was set to display one of its prized Patriot missile-defense systems at the Dubai Airshow, part of the American showcase at one of the world’s biggest arms fairs. Then war broke out in the Middle East, and the $1 billion battery, mounted on three trucks, was needed …

The Economist: From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up

10:28 19.11.2023

The Economist: From Gaza to Ukraine, wars and crises are piling up

An israel-hamas war in Gaza threatens to spread across the Middle East, with America and Iran facing off in the background. The Ukraine war, Europe’s largest since 1945, shows no sign of ending. Chinese jets and warships now menace Taiwan in growing numbers and with increasing frequency. Looming elections on …

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