Chinese crackdown. Chinese Defense Minister Dong Jun has been placed under investigation over allegations of corruption, The Financial Times reported. Dong, who was appointed by Xi Jinping, would be ...
Russian tax revenue. Russia’s State Duma adopted a law increasing the profit tax rate for “natural monopoly entities transporting oil and oil products via trunk pipelines” – i.e., state pipeline ...
Cutting costs. German car parts manufacturer Bosch said it plans to cut 3,800 jobs in Germany by the end of 2027 to reduce costs in an increasingly competitive market ...
Iran’s entry into the Arab world was always going to result in a conflict with Israel, but, despite claims to the contrary, Iran was never interested in fighting Israel. Its true conflict is with ...
As I wrote in my most recent book, “The Storm Before the Calm,” we tend to use presidencies as benchmarks to help us locate where we are in time, but it would be a mistake to think that presidents and ...