A Volkswagen employee works on an assembly line in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in December. WANG QIN/FOR CHINA DAILY With their mutually complementary economic advantages, there is no so-called ...
At the beginning of the 21st century, the diamond industry operated as a perfect example of globalization: It mined rough in Africa, sold it in London, cut it in Surat, and retailed the resulting ...
In 1494, King Charles VIII of France launched an all-out war against the republics of the Italian peninsula, a watershed moment in history. Within months, 50,000 soldiers from his army had fled, not ...
January 2020. GrowthPolicy’s Devjani Roy interview Jeffry Frieden, Chair of the Department of Government at Harvard and Stanfield Professor of International Peace, on globalization, the rise of ...
At the moment of writing, the fourth anniversary of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine is only four months away. At the same time, Israel has resumed bombing Gaza after the failure of a weak U.S.
Influenza viruses are shifty entities. They accumulate small genetic changes on a regular basis, necessitating yearly updates to the flu vaccines because the prior year’s strain may not look much like ...
Starting in the Biden administration, if not before, a recurring theme among some analysts has been that the era of globalization is over, and the world is moving into a new stage. Numerous Biden ...
ABSTRACT: Bonded zones (BZs) and export processing zones (EPZs), as key measures to promote the development of export-oriented economy, have an important impact on the export commodity structures ...
President Donald Trump’s protectionist stance is undoing decades of free trade policies. Since taking office for his second term, Trump has imposed a series of tariffs on goods and countries, which ...
Globalization is often seen as a force that erodes local cultures, blending everything into a single, uniform global identity. But what if globalization, instead of being a cultural bulldozer, could ...
In 2023, the U.S. experienced a trade deficit of $773 billion, with China as its largest trade creditor. The U.S. trade deficit has steadily grown since 2009, regardless of which party held the ...