The world received early warnings about Covid-19’s high transmission and mortality rates in early January, weeks before the disease took beyond China where it originated. Muddled communications, slow development of tests, fragmented data collection systems and equipment shortages compounded the...
The specter of China and it's massive fleet of low-cost laborers haunts developing economies worldwide. However, for middle-income countries, focusing on cheap labor is not the answer for sustained economic growth, according to The McKinsey Quarterly. Using Mexico as a basis for discussion,...
Buoyed by the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), Mexico in the 1990s was the bustling factory floor of the Americas. But since 2000, as China rose to assume that role, more than 270,000 Mexicans have lost...
Oil prices plummeted in March when OPEC and non-OPEC producers including Russia could not agree on production cuts to stabilize oil prices. Producers opened the taps, and oil prices went into negative territory with worries over storage space. By April, 23 nations agreed to a 10 percent cut in...
UNICEF estimates the world has about 650 million females who married under the age of 18. Child marriages not only limit individual human rights, but also perpetuate poverty and inequality for entire communities and countries. Nonyelum A. Ujam, who works with the Central Bank of Nigeria and is a...
Not made in heaven: Nigeria’s child bride with newly married husband; Nigeria’s young girls face a bleak future
ABUJA, NIGERIA: The United Nations International Children’s Education Fund, UNICEF, defines a child as any person below the age of 18...
More than 75 nations participate in China’s Belt and Road Initiative, launched in 2013 to develop trade and connect Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe with ports, roads and railways. But some countries worry about adding to already heavy debt burdens, and some projects have become an issue in...
Transport trouble: Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad criticizes China’s “new colonialism” at Beijing’s Great Hall of the People, and Chinese-built railway connects parts of Africa
HONG KONG: China has launched a new publicity drive to...
Some hoped that the recent East Asian Summit (EAS)—which included China, India, Japan, South Korea, Australia and New Zealand, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN)—would be the first step towards building an East Asian Community. Instead, EAS brought historical rivalries and...
You may borrow my pen, but not influence: Japanese Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi caused hilarity by borrowing Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao's pen, but it did not hide serious tension under the surface. (Photo: Reuters)...
While many are aware of the "triangular" slave trade among Europe, Africa and the Americas in the 18th century, few people realize that Asian-European trade was also instrumental in sustaining the exchange of human slaves. For example, French ships carrying European goods to Asia returned...
19th-century lithograph of a French ship transporting slaves to the colonies in the Caribbean (Source: Digital Media Lab, University of Virginia Library)
NEW HAVEN: The role that international trade has played in developing a globally integrated...
After the September 11 terrorist attacks, President George W. Bush and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld made the decision to present terrorism, weapons of mass destruction and Iraq as a linked triple threat. Susan Moeller, professor of media and international affairs at the University of...
White House press room: The US media listened too much to the White House and ignored independent experts.
WASHINGTON: Although Americans were already shivering from frissons of fear provoked by the post -...
