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Canada has the antidote to Asia’s energy anxiety

Silicon Valley futurist Roy Amara famously observed in the 1970s that we “tend to overestimate the effect of a technology in the short run and underestimate the effect in the long run.” That insight—later dubbed “Amara’s Law”—has since traveled far beyond the realm of

Hormuz blockade driving a Gulf logistics revolution

As I prepared the March issue of the Gulf Economic Diplomacy Update for the Anwar Gargash Diplomatic Academy in Abu Dhabi, I was reminded of a folk tale from my native Bulgaria, loosely translated as “The Hardship Lesson.” Two young brothers must step in for their father,

Trump turning China’s yuan into world’s next safe haven

TOKYO — As US President Donald Trump’s tariffs and military adventurism chip away at the dollar’s credibility, the privilege may be all China’s. The reference here is to the phrase coined by France’s finance minister in the 1960s, Valery Giscard d’Estaing, to criticize the