MILAN, Italy (Project Syndicate)—Central banks’ efforts to contain high and rising inflation are fueling headwinds to growth and are threatening to tip the global economy into recession. But the proximate Read more
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Opinion: Defending Taiwan starts with standing up to Putin
President Joe Biden’s recent statement that the United States would intervene militarily if China tried to take Taiwan by force was hardly a gaffe. The U.S. policy of strategic ambiguity has outlived its usefulness. Read more
China’s manufacturing output rebounds as COVID restrictions ease
A private gauge measuring China’s factory activity rebounded to its highest level in a year, pointing in the same direction as the official gauge to reflect an economic recovery from Read more
Opinion: Rising prices: why the global drive to keep food cheap is unsustainable
As prices rise, everywhere, for pretty much everything, the prospect of the human suffering this will cause is deeply worrying. There are predictions that the number of people in the world experiencing acute Read more