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Former ambassador assesses US-China trade deal

KANIKA SOOD  |  THURSDAY, 7 FEB 2019
... with China," Thawley said. He said, economically China is too big to ignore, unlike the much smaller economy of the Soviet Union in the cold war. China enjoyed 20 years of integrating into the wider world economy. This period ended when Xi Jinping came ...

US growth stable due to resilient consumer-base

ALEX BURKE  |  FRIDAY, 12 FEB 2016
... we got here." He argued that the "journey to this particular point" began 25 years ago due to the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1989 and the formation of the World Trade Organisation in 1995. "After 1989, we doubled the number of people in the global ...

Modi under the spotlight

LAURA MILLAN  |  THURSDAY, 30 APR 2015
... it with the rest of the world, Saxo bank chief economist Steen Jakobsen said: "the global market is closer to the Soviet Union in 1989 in its political and economic structure than to a freely traded market. The inability to move money from paper into ...

Billionaire makers: The cities growing the world's wealthiest

MARK SMITH  |  FRIDAY, 22 AUG 2014
... economic successes, other cities have changed dramatically such as Detroit or Moscow -which 60 years ago was under the Soviet Union." Spear's editor Josh Spero added: "London may have the most billionaires in the world today, but most of them aren't ...

US/EU v Russia's lose-lose is China's win-win

BENJAMIN ONG  |  FRIDAY, 8 AUG 2014
... at 6.8 percent of GDP at the height of the Reagan defense buildup. But, beginning even before the breakup of the Soviet Union it began a decline, reaching below 6 percent in 1990, below 4 percent in 1996 and bottoming out at 3.5 percent of GDP in 2001 ...

Chumbawamba rules

BENJAMIN ONG  |  TUESDAY, 5 AUG 2014
... enclave about the size of Rhode Island," according to Bloomberg. According to reports fighting started after the Soviet Union broke up in 1991, ceased fire in 1994 with bouts of intermittent violence since then. So what? So what is it involves Putin ...

Reheating the cold war

BENJAMIN ONG  |  MONDAY, 3 MAR 2014
... regard the U.S. with a mixture of dread and disdain. As he sees it, the United States engineered the fall of the Soviet Union and then, lacking its superpower opponent, encouraged East European revolutions and then the removal of Russian allies and clients ...

GES and Limestone launch Eastern Europe SRI fund

MICHAEL HOBBS  |  THURSDAY, 22 MAY 2008
... SRI principles. The fund's investment universe contains roughly 250 companies across former member states of the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Romania, Czech Republic, Serbia, Croatia, Albania, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania. The fund attempts to avoid investing ...

India: a country within a country

ALEX DUNNIN REPORTING FROM MUMBAI AND NEW DELHI AT THE INAUGURAL AUSTRALIA INDIA FINANCIAL FORUM  |  THURSDAY, 22 NOV 2007
... rents and so they had no incentive to maintain their properties. Indeed India's major political ally used to be the Soviet Union which in turn lead to it being frozen out by the US and China. But global recognition of India's newfound potential has lead ...

Investment treasure in emerging Europe: QWL

HAMISH MADDEN  |  TUESDAY, 12 JUN 2007
... companies operating in new EU member countries as well as south-east European nations due to join the EU and former Soviet Union states. QWL said investment in these regions should be attractive to Australian investors, driven by the "convergence factor ...
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