Category: Wellbeing

The issues of the South China Sea are too trivial to be allowed to spark armed conflict or trans-Pacific confrontation.  They are solvable, if those enmeshed in them are willing to make the effort to imagine and pursue solutions to them.  The parties need urgently to get on with this.  And they deserve American encouragement to do so. Diplomacy on the Rocks: China and Other […]

The expert view is that China will be just fine. “But out of all of the market turmoil and uncertainty will emerge at least one big winner: China,” writes Michael Schuman on the Bloomberg site. A headline in ValueWalk went even further: “Brexit: China Could Be the Biggest Winner of All.” That is not an unreasonable view. China, after all, will have far greater bargaining […]

The EU’s response to Brexit could well prove to be another pitfall. European leaders, eager to deter other member states from following suit, may be in no mood to offer the UK terms – particularly concerning access to Europe’s single market – that would soften the pain of leaving. With the EU accounting for half of British trade turnover, the impact on exporters could be […]