What would it take for PH to produce own semiconductors?
SEMICONDUCTORS are an important topic right now, and for good reason. Modern tech won’t exist without them, and since modern armies and navies are...
Capital flight from China to Southeast Asia
SEVERAL international companies have been leaving China for Southeast Asian countries. In 2023, for example, Sony completed the transfer of its camera production line...
A symptom of a much deeper global problem
A QUICK search on French news in recent weeks will reveal that the country is having problems with their pension system.
The summary for the...
My thoughts on EDCA
THERE has been a lot of noise over the Enhanced Defense Cooperation Agreement (EDCA).
On the one hand, I agree with its proponents that it...
Yuan not likely to be next global reserve currency
THERE has been talk of the People’s Republic of China trying to supplant the US Dollar with the Yuan through de-dollarization. I disagree with...
Armenia and Azerbaijan clash again
AZERBAIJAN and Armenia nearly started a war again. Azebaijanis reportedly occupied Armenian land recently following a brief engagement.
From what I heard, the situation got...
Government control over financial technology
JACK MA, the Chinese Jeff Bezos, has been missing these past few months, prompting many to speculate that he may have been imprisoned (or...
China’s numerous border disputes
QUESTION: How many border disputes is China involved in?
Answer: 17.
I got this piece of information from the Caspian Report, a YouTube channel that specializes...
Looking beyond the pandemic
WE ENTERED the COVID pandemic with certain expectations and assumptions about how the world worked. When it ends, we could see a very different...
Most vulnerable areas of the economy
LAST week, while scanning Twitter, I came upon this interesting Tweet by Dan Price:
“Amazon: profit up 100 percent
Walmart: profit up 80 percent
Target: profit up...