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Dangers ahead

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Acclaimed Historian and professor of the history of International realtions at the University of Cambridge, Brendan Simms, brings a sweeping study of the past, present and future of the Great Powers revealing changing new rules of global leadership. From the dawn of the modern era to the end of the Cold War, global history was defined by rivalries between Great Powers. In the West, this meant the struggle for supremacy in Europe and the Americas, while in the East, it encompassed those vying for control over the successor states to Genghis Khan’s empire. Between 1989 and the year 2000, Great … Continue reading Dangers ahead

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Trump lands in Beijing two trillion dollar leverage

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American President Donald Trump is not politician but a businessman, landed in Beijing. When a president makes travels to a diplomatic summit a state visit, he brings diplomats, advisers and officials. Trump brought Tim Cook (Apple), Elon Musk (Tesla & SpaceXKelly), Larry Fink (Black Rock),Jamie Dimon (JP Morgan), Nvidia (Jensen Huang),  Mark Zuckerberg (Meta), Laurence Culp Jr. ( GE Aerospace), Ryan McInerney (Mastercard), Kelly Ortberg (Boeing), Stephen Schwarzman(Blackstone), Brian Sikes (Cargill) David Solomon(Goldman Sachs), Jacob Thaysen (Illumina Conciliatory measures), Cristiano Amon (Qualcomm) including 17 American CEOs. You don’t bring the most powerful private sector CEOs on earth to a foreign capital … Continue reading Trump lands in Beijing two trillion dollar leverage

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Global purchasing power

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2, 500 years of international currencies the future of the U.S. dollar as well as crypto and central bank digital currencies are revealed. Recently the US dollar has fallen more than 10 per cent against other major currencies since the beginning of 2025, and this especially has questioned the its future, that how long can it remain the world’s premier currency and should it fall what will replace it? Doubts about the international dominance of the dollar are only growing amid worries about tariffs, political dysfunction and fraying international alliances. In Money Beyond Borders, Barry Eichengreen, a leading authority on … Continue reading Global purchasing power

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Changing  western-dominated international order

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Former UK minister in the coalition government under David Cameron and chief economist at Shell, brings all his knowledge, common sense and experience in Eclipsing the West, defining political and economic issue of our era, relations between the west and the rising Asian countries like China and India. As the International order begins to crumble in the Western-dominated world we have known for the past three hundred years is coming to an end, as America withdraws from its role as enforcer of the international order, other countries are moving in to fill the void.  Accounting for more than a third … Continue reading Changing  western-dominated international order

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Engineering towards mega projects

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Chinese-Canadian, Technology analyst, Dan Wang, from Stanford University, has been living through China’s astonishing messy progress. China’s towering bridges, gleaming railways, and sprawling factories have improved economic outcomes in record time. Rapid changes also meant pain throughout the Chinese society, controlled by political repression ending in astonishing growth, a feature of China’s engineering mindset. In Breakneck, Wang, reveals a provocative new framework for understanding China – one that helps us see America more clearly. While China is an engineering state, relentlessly pursuing megaprojects, the United States has stalled. America has transformed into a lawyerly society, reflexively blocking everything good and … Continue reading Engineering towards mega projects

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Seven turbulent decades of Global finance

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Professor of economist at Harvard and former chief economist at the IMF, Kenneth Rogoff explores the global rise of the U.S. dollar and reveals why the future stability is far from assured and argues that America’s currency might not have reached today’s lofty pinnacle without certain amount of good luck. The sharp sell-off of US Treasury bonds following Trump’s April 2 announcement of America’s highest tariff wall for a century confirmed Rogoff’s view that the recently prevailing belief that real interest rates will be “lower forever” is a dangerous myth. He sees America’s, and hence the dollar’s, “Achilles heel”, as … Continue reading Seven turbulent decades of Global finance

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Arsenal of economic weapons: How the US weaponised Dollar

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Chokepoints is one of the most pivotal geopolitical shifts of our time. As Russia, China and Iran have sought to upend the international order, America and its allies have mounted unprecedented economic retaliation. Now the global economy is a weapon of war. Globalisation was once hailed as the great leveller, bringing prosperity to all. Former top US State Department official and a scholar, at Columbia university, Edward Fishman, takes us into the back rooms of power around the world, meeting an eclectic group of innovator: the diplomats, lawyers, and financial whizzes who have masterminded a fearsome new arsenal of economic … Continue reading Arsenal of economic weapons: How the US weaponised Dollar

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Has Silicon Valley lost its way?

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Palantir Technologies, a company that is intertwined with the national security state, Silicon Valley’s utopian tech thinking was always untethered from reality and it’s a good thing that it is now ending. Palantir’s co-founder and CEO Alexander C. Karp and Nicholas W. Zamiska claims that in order for the West to retain its global edge – and preserve the freedoms we take for granted – the software industry must renew its commitment to addressing our urgent challenges, including the new arms race for artificial intelligence. Government, in turn, must embrace the most effective features of the engineering mindset that have … Continue reading Has Silicon Valley lost its way?

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Have we lost ability to make things?

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We live in a manufactured world, Unless you are floating naked through space, you are right  now in direct contact with multiple manufactured products. How ofoten we stop to think: where do the things we buy actually come from? American President, Donald Trump, promised in his recent inaugural address, America would soon become “a manufacturing nation once again”. His planned tariffs, will encourage some global companies to relocate factories back to the US.  Academic expert on innovation and technology at Cambridge University, Tim Minshall’s Your Life Is Manufactured is about perils of losing touch with the art of making things .  This … Continue reading Have we lost ability to make things?

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Taiwan caught between Chinese power and vagaries of US politics

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When the bloody Chinese Civil War concluded in 1949, two Chinas were born. Mao’s Communists won and took China’s mainland, Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists fled to Taiwan island. Since then, China and Taiwan have drifted into being separate political and cultural entities. Kerry Brown on the small island caught between Chinese power and the vagaries of US politics, to find a solution to a problem, when they attempt it would most certainly lead to world war, the stalemate prevailed for the past 76 years. Taiwan is now a free, vibrant society, flourishing democracy and an economic success story, as one of … Continue reading Taiwan caught between Chinese power and vagaries of US politics