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- EU fears losing influence in Latin America as trade deals falter
Concerns over Amazon deforestation hold up talks with Brazil over Mercosur pact
- Swiss to vote in national poll on banning factory farming
This weekend’s ballot could see Switzerland also giving farm animals the constitutional right ‘not to be intensively farmed’Swiss voters will vote on Sunday on whether to ban factory farming as unconstitutional and end imports of intensively farmed meat.The latest polling shows 52% of voters oppose a ban, and 47% support one. If the factory-farming ballot initiative is passed, Switzerland’s constitution, which already protects the “welfare and dignity of animals”, would be modified to include an animal’s right “not to be intensively farmed”, and new laws would lower animal stocking rates to meet organic standards. Continue reading...
- Italian expats report irregularities with mail-in ballots
Voters abroad or outside their legal domicile make up 10 per cent of Italy’s electorate
- Why trade couldn’t buy peace
We thought globalisation was immune from geopolitical risk. We were wrong
- US senators press Apple over possible Chinese chipmaker deal
Call for national security review comes as iPhone maker considers using YMTC chips
- Liz Truss’s growth ambitions have little credibility on trade
The UK economy still is too heavily influenced by the EU to be truly independent
- Huawei’s next move and China’s chip worker conundrum
The inside story on the Asia tech trends that matter, from Nikkei Asia and the Financial Times
- What if carbon border taxes applied to all carbon – fossil fuels, too?
A new study shows what it would mean for Europe and China, and why the US might not be too excited about the idea.
- European businesses forced to ‘reduce, localise and silo’ in China
EU chamber of commerce says members’ engagement ‘can no longer be taken for granted’ in Asian superpower
- Bipartisan group urges US blacklist for ‘Beijing-directed’ chipmaker
Leading members of Congress raise alarm over YMTC after allegations of co-operation with Huawei
- Leveraging up the World Bank to fund a global rescue
The obsession with maintaining multilateral development banks’ credit ratings might be counterproductive
- Ecuador reaches $1.4bn debt restructuring deal with China
Beijing is increasingly offering bailouts to countries at risk of financial crises
- Truss admits UK-US trade deal is not on the agenda
Prime minister’s assessment leaves hole in government’s post-Brexit trade strategy
- America needs a proper risk strategy for its relations with China
Raising tensions without understanding the full economic consequences is pure folly
- South Korea complains of growing friction with US over high-tech trade
Seoul’s trade minister accuses Joe Biden of about-face on electric vehicle subsidies
- Starting an International Business? Consider These 3 Countries
These three countries are a great place to start your international endeavors.
- Starting an International Business? Consider These 3 Countries
These three countries are a great place to start your international endeavors.
- NGO retracts ‘waste colonialism’ report blaming Asian countries for plastic pollution
Ocean Conservancy apologises for ‘false narrative’ of 2015 study that put blame for bulk of world’s plastic waste on five Asian statesAn environmental watchdog has retracted an influential report that blamed five Asian countries for the majority of plastic pollution in the ocean.The report, Stemming the Tide, from the US-based environmental advocacy group Ocean Conservancy, also included incineration and waste-to-energy as “solutions” to the plastics crisis. Published in 2015, it was decried as “waste colonialism” by hundreds of environmental, health and social justice groups across Asia. Continue reading...
- Fortress China: Xi Jinping’s plan for economic independence
Beijing wants to become less dependent on the west — and especially on its technology. But how realistic is this self-sufficiency goal in a connected world?
- Cutting Germany’s risky trade dependence on China
Moves to diversify and rebalance Berlin’s export-industrial complex are welcome
