Afghanistan’s Fate Will Be Shaped by Geoeconomics
September 21st, 2021
Via Geopolitical Monitor, an article on the impact of geoeconomics on Afghanistan’s future: Geoeconomics was originally defined by the strategic thinker Edward Luttwak as the logic of conflict expressed through the grammar of commerce. As such, it represents an analytical model that is appropriate to examine the involvement of geopolitical forces in the economic sphere […]
Read more »Ethiopia Invites Bids For 40% Stake In Ethio Telecom
September 17th, 2021
Via The East African, news of the Ethiopian Government’s plan to invite bids for a 40% stake in Ethio Telecom, one of the most profitable companies in the country, with some 45 million subscribers: The Ethiopian government on Tuesday announced that it has launched a bidding process for private investors to buy a 40 percent stake […]
Read more »New China-Myanmar Corridor Creating Economic Opportunities
September 16th, 2021
Via China.org, a report on the new China-Myanmar corridor: At the end of August, the first batch of cargo arrived in China’s Sichuan province via the new China-Myanmar corridor. The goods started out in the Port of Singapore from where they were shipped through the Indian Ocean to Yangon, before being transported on to China […]
Read more »Afghanistan’s Highway 1
September 16th, 2021
Courtesy of The Economist, a report on Afghanistan’s old problems and new challenges, as explained by the road linking its biggest cities: Cars swerve from one side of the road to the other as they jockey to avoid the deep ruts in the decaying asphalt. The traffic passes the ghosts of American posts as it slaloms […]
Read more »Kyrgyzstan & China Increasing their Economic Integration as Part of Belt & Road
September 16th, 2021
Via Belt and Road News, an article on the growing economic partnership between China and Kyrgyzstan: Long isolated culturally and linguistically from each other, Kyrgyzstan and China are now increasing their economic integration as part of the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). The economic presence of Chinese investors has triggered Sinophobic attitudes among the people of Kyrgyzstan. […]
Read more »Vietnam’s Special (Economic) Sauce
September 13th, 2021
Via The Economist, a look at Vietnam economic future: Having impressed the world by taming the virus last year, Vietnam is now in the middle of its worst outbreak of covid-19 by far. Parts of the country are in strict lockdown and a swathe of factories, from those making shoes for Nike to those producing […]
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