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  • BUSINESS

    Stuck in neutral

    Asia focus, Published on 27/01/2020

    » Amid ongoing uncertainties including trade tariffs and geopolitical tensions, global economic growth prospects look dim for 2020, partly due to a disappointing performance in major Asian economies.

  • OPINION

    Belt and Road: Just a vast mess?

    News, David Fickling, Published on 10/01/2019

    » Is China's Belt and Road Initiative a bold infrastructure vision, or a slush fund? The question is becoming more pressing.

  • BUSINESS

    Casualties of the trade war

    Asia focus, Nareerat Wiriyapong, Published on 23/07/2018

    » It seems the US-China trade war is going to affect more people in the two countries than first thought, in addition to the potentially devastating implications for the global economy.

  • BUSINESS

    Japan unveils $110bn plan to fund Asia infrastructure

    Published on 21/05/2015

    » TOKYO — Japan unveiled a plan on Thursday to provide US$110 billion (3.67 trillion baht) in aid for Asian infrastructure projects, as China prepares to launch a new institutional lender that is seen as encroaching on the regional financial clout of Tokyo and its ally Washington.

  • BUSINESS

    US questions Japan on AIIB stance

    Published on 10/04/2015

    » TOKYO — The United States has questioned Japan about its possible participation in a Chinese initiative to set up a regional development bank from which both allies have stood aloof, sources familiar with bilateral relations said Friday.

  • OPINION

    China's bank heralds decline of US

    News, Published on 24/03/2015

    » Some events are epochal. The decision by Great Britain to join the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) was one such event. It may have heralded the end of the American century and the arrival of the Asian century.

  • WORLD

    AIIB to complement existing institutions: China

    Published on 22/03/2015

    » BEIJING - China's finance minister said a proposed Chinese-led Asian regional bank that has raised concerns in Washington will complement rather than compete with established international lenders such as the World Bank, state media reported Saturday.

  • BUSINESS

    Woman on a mission

    Asia focus, Published on 09/03/2015

    » As the number one destination for US investment in Asia and its fourth-largest export market worldwide, Asean has clear economic as well as strategic importance for Washington. The relationship moved to a new level in 2010 when the United States established a permanent mission to the Association of Southeast Asian Nations in Jakarta — separate from the US embassy to Indonesia.

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