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Trump’s Xi and Takaichi calls ring market alarm bells

President Donald Trump picked up the phone twice in one day on Monday — first to China’s Xi Jinping, then to Japan’s Sanae Takaichi — with the world’s most important trading relationships sitting on a fault line. Investors should treat these calls as a market event and not as

Why Goldman Sachs is so optimistic about China

TOKYO – Something very few political wonks saw coming in 2025 was the extent to which China would get the better of Donald Trump. To be sure, few serious economists thought the US president’s tariffs would end well. But count the ways Chinese leader Xi Jinping — through

Vietnam drowning in misrule, deflection and censorship

Severe flooding in south-central Vietnam has killed scores, displaced thousands and submerged entire districts. International news outlets have framed the event as the result of extreme rainfall. But for people living in Khanh Hoa, Phu Yen and Dak Lak, this was not merely a