Results for “China Radio International”

…xplosion of Central Bank balance sheets and associated reflation goals (see last week’s EoTM); and the possibility that China’s will build strategic crude oil reserves to the IEA standard of 90 days from their current level of 14. Note as well that the inventory build is a small...

…-state involved in influence operations. As the accompanying graphic illustrates, the bureaucracy involved in extending China’s global influence is large, complex, and specialized in function. Generally speaking, there are three types of bureaucratic organizations included in the...

…ng off the rivers of dubious wealth that had been unleashed by all the efforts to move cash, much of it from Russia and China, out of political harm’s way. Such money, or rumors of such money, became an explanation—still only a circumstantial one—in trying to assess all the Trump...

…sts in the Middle East.” Since the vetoes, however, the Syrian National Council has established contact with Russia and China to offer assurances that a democratic Syria would pursue “cooperation with all nations.” SNC sources tell me that they’ve also “opened a dialogue” with I...

…Security Council should take up the issue again — this time to debate the threat to the region. Last month, Russia and China tried to justify their vetoes by claiming that the Arab states were divided over Syria. This wasn’t true then and is less so now. The Arab League has susp...

…al interest in putting in place a new political arrangement in the Middle East. So does the United States, Russia, even China. Each, in their own ways, is threatened by a terror threat that will require international action, and many years, finally to defeat. A Saudi “peace plan...

…the “The Belt and Road Forum for International Cooperation” (commentating), the second most important event of 2017 in China (after the upcoming Party Congress), but Western media not paying much attention, what with All-Things-Trump. On May 8, 2017, at 7:03 PM, jeffrey E. <jee...

…and — Het Spectrum, Finland — Terra Cognita, Brazil — Das Letras; Japan — Hayakawa; Korea — Gimm Young; Taiwan — Locus; China — CITIC; Russia — Atticus; Audio — Penguin RH; Manuscript; 400 pages; Publication: May 2017] The former head of the Sante Fe Institute, visionary physici...

…are: a stronger than anticipated recovery in Las Vegas, improving consumer sentiment and its 56% ownership stake in MGM China. Downside risks are: balance sheet and liquidity risks proving worse than expected, continued Strip competition, and continuing near-term softness in the...

…ocrat Max Baucus, previously the chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, was just confirmed as the U.S. ambassador to China, lowering the chances that chamber will take up such legislation, Mr. Rubenstein said. In addition, a term limit will force Mr. Camp to relinquish his com...

…was the source of the stolen NSA documents for which the FBI was searching. The problem was that since Hong Kong was in China, US law enforcement did not have the means to recover them. At that point, determining the magnitude of the theft of documents became a critical concern...

…tates next year, as well. Here are the IMF's projections for economic growth in various parts of the world: 2009. 2010 China. 75. 85 India. 54 65 Middle East 2.0 3.7 Africa. 1.8 4.7 Brazil. -1.3 2.5 World total -1.4 2.5 Canada. -2.3 1.6 US. -2.6 0.8 France. -3.0 0.4 Spain. -4.0...

…eady had some successes, most conspicuously her use of American diplomatic leverage in the U.N. Security Council to get China and especially Russia to help isolate Iran and North Korea. She and the president have convinced the Russians that proffering military hardware to [ran is...

…al interest in putting in place a new political arrangement in the Middle East. So does the United States, Russia, even China. Each, in their own ways, is threatened by a terror threat that will require international action, and many years, finally to defeat. A Saudi “peace plan...

…plemented medical cannabis laws, including Australia, Canada, Colombia and Germany; countries without such laws include China, Japan, Russia and the United States. # Although federally illegal in the United States, 46 states and the District of Columbia have passed at least one...