China Economic ReviewThe world is heading into ever more treacherous waters and the view that the Trumpian chaos and Iran war are overall of the benefit to Beijing is a strong theme out there at the moment. We would say, however, that it is too early to say. There are some truly horrendous potential outcomes to what […]
The war in Iran continues and its impact is growing. It has the potential to push the world, as well as individual regions and countries into troubled waters, and that was indicated most clearly in terms of China by the unusual move on Wednesday of announcing that Foreign Minister Wang Yi had urged Iran to […]
What the China system likes more than anything else is certainty, but the war in Iran is creating situations that are very hard to predict. Beijing has on one level been interested in playing a middleman role, and just a few years ago, very prominently arranged for a detente of sorts between Saudi Arabia and […]
People talk a lot about AI and the huge impact that it is going to have on all of our lives, and this week has suddenly seen one possible way in which that happens. The key word is OpenClaw, which is an AI agent which can control and coordinate all your apps, data, calendars, emails […]
China is a big player these days in many global issues, but in this new Iran war it is to a large extent a bystander, feeling the effects and trying to work out how this is going to play out. The initial consequences are a sharp cut in seaborne oil supplies from the Gulf, a […]