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South Africa’s 2023 outlook remains grim primarily due to self-inflicted crises. The most pressing concern is the state electricity provider Eskom’s inability to provide sufficient capacity to meet power generation needs and the consequent supply chain issues. The current conditions have given man...

As Russia and China are both facing containment and sanctions from the West, the two countries are building up stronger economic ties.

When a year draws to a close, the prospects of Chinese and global social and economic progress in the coming year often spark wide media and scholarly discussions around the world. As the world’s second-largest economy, China adjusted its COVID policy in December 2022, and naturally garnered enormo...

The Financial Times has invented a new term to describe the current global economic situation: “shrinkflation.” The new term aptly describes the situation of the US economy, which in the first and second quarters of 2022 experienced negative growth for two consecutive quarters – a technical reces...

On November 27, 2022, the Government of Canada promulgated the Indo-Pacific Strategy and joined the US Club of China containment.

On December 16, 2022, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida in a televised news conference announced a new National Security Strategy (NSS) along with two other documents, a national defense strategy (NDS) and Defense Buildup Program (DBP), indicating a major departure from the last seven decades’ ...