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Breast cancer rates in China are rising, and are expected to continue rising for the next three decades.
By 2100, more than 50 per cent of the land now used to grow coffee will no longer be arable. Climate change is changing the game to such an extent that Canada could one day become a coffee producer.
China has successfully implemented afforestation to counter desertification. But, today, it faces another risk: its waters are declining.
Governments racing to grab a lead in the global quest to position their countries for the car industry of the future.
The cyberthreat from China is one more of espionage than destruction. And it’s changing – perhaps even lessening.
With much attention focused on military might and economic sanctions, there has been little focus on calls for a diplomatic solution to the North Korean crisis.
Crunching the numbers on 14 years of trading shows one of the assumptions about global markets is looking fragile.
China’s bid for an infrastructure blitz to drive overland trade through to Europe will end up being overshadowed.
The countries doing innovative deals with trading partners have one key difference with a post-Brexit UK.
Tens of thousands of North Koreans live in China. Their lives are often no better than they were at home.
The development of distributed trust technologies is making traditional institutions like banks, corporations and governments nervous. Those who have power like to hold onto it. What’s next?
We should interpret the threat posed by North Korea from an informed perspective based on demonstrable strategic logic, rather than on caricatured misrepresentations of its leadership.
In recent years the number of motor vehicles – and the pollution they generate – has grown astronomically, leading some citydwellers to wear facemasks in the hopes of protecting themselves. So do they work?
The latest salvo of insults and threats between President Trump and North Korea’s Kim brought the region a little bit closer to war. China, North Korea’s closest trading partner, may be the only way out.
Walt Rostow argued communism was incompatible with economic development and was influential in persuading Presidents Kennedy and Johnson to get more involved in Vietnam.
The promise of BRICS was that it would usher in a new approach to development. But after meeting annually for the last nine years there’s no sign that the old order has been challenged.
The world has much to learn from the maturity, restraint and negotiation skills of one small country facing two superpowers
The recent crackdown on cryptocurrencies in China is a prelude to the assertion of control over this area by the Chinese authorities.
Regulation and oversight could be the saviour or the death of a Bitcoin and others.
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