Chinese overseas direct investment has fallen precipitously in the last four years, John Quelch, dean of the University of Miami Business School has told Boom Bust. While discussing the effects of the heated trade conflict between the world’s biggest economies, Quelch said that China’s direct investment in the United States has plunged from $55 billion…
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‘The Cold War is over’: Pakistan PM mulling arms deals with Moscow ahead of SCO summit
In an exclusive interview with Sputnik, Pakistan’s Prime Minister Imran Khan discusses developing relations with Moscow, his hopes from the upcoming Shanghai Cooperation Organization summit and the ongoing crisis with rival India. Sputnik: Do you plan to have talks with the Russian leadership in the near future? Do you yourself plan any visits to Russia? Imran Khan: I would love to visit…
100s attend unsanctioned rally in Moscow to support journalist after drug case against him dropped
Hundreds attended a rally in Moscow to support reporter Ivan Golunov on the day after drugs charges against him were dropped and his house arrest ended. The rally wasn’t sanctioned by officials, who had approved another date. The drug-dealing charges against Golunov, an investigative journalist with Meduza, were dropped on Tuesday due to lack of…
Israeli settlement goods should be labeled – senior adviser to EU top court
A senior adviser to the EU’s top court said on Thursday that products from Israeli-occupied territories must be clearly labeled as such to avoid misleading consumers. The European Court of Justice is not obliged to follow the Advocate General Gerard Hogan’s legal advice. However, the former Irish judge’s legal opinions are seen as highly influential…
Speed, performance, privacy & pain: But Pentagon says F-35 issues have ‘acceptable workarounds’
As an F-35 flew over the White House to impress President Donald Trump and his Polish counterpart, a damning report outlined a litany of potentially fatal issues with the jet the Pentagon wants to greenlight for full production. Documents obtained by Defense News point to 13 severe technical issues that still plagued all three variants…
‘F*ck the international community, it can be bought’: Filipino FM on South China Sea incident
The Philippines’ top diplomat is not interested in support from the international community when it comes to the dispute with China over the sinking of a boat in disputed waters of the South China Sea. “F*ck the international community. It can be bought. This is our fight and in the end ours alone,” Foreign Secretary…
France seeks more European special forces to tackle rising Sahel violence
Click:wps官网下载 France has asked European powers to provide special forces to support thousands of troops struggling to contain a rise in violence in West Africa. There has been an increase over the last six months in Islamist militant attacks and inter-ethnic violence in the Sahel region, Reuters said. Click Here: cheap kanken backpack “If we…
Google staff keep ‘blacklist’ of conservative and ‘fringe’ sites – report
Google reportedly runs two “blacklists,” one allowing staff to remove “fringe” websites from search results and another for filtering out opinion articles, according to conservative news outlet the Daily Caller. The lists allow Google employees –who CEO Sundar Pichai told Congress in December never “manually intervene on any particular search result”– to suppress certain addresses…
Trump says he’ll meet Putin at G20, but Moscow hasn’t heard a thing about it
US President Donald Trump said he intended to meet his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin at the upcoming G20 summit in Japan. The Kremlin says they have not heard from the White House about the preparations, however. “I’ll be meeting with Putin at the G20,” Trump told reporters at the White House on Wednesday, as he…
US threats over F-35 program dishonor NATO alliance, Ankara says
Turkey has criticized a letter from Washington warning about Ankara’s removal from the F-35 fighter jet program, describing the language used in the message as unbecoming of a NATO ally. Acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan wrote a letter to his Turkish counterpart, Hulusi Akar, outlining how Ankara would be excluded from the F-35 program unless…