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Nepal joins regional wave of revolt as popular anger at repression and inequality spreads across South Asia
12 Sep 2025 01:43 GMT
Since 2022, a wave of movements that originated in Sri Lanka has spread across South Asia. In Bangladesh, the anti-quota movement sparked widespread protests in 2024, prompting the Sheikh Hasina government to respond with severe repression. In retaliation, …
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Michael Hudson – Trump’s Tariff Wars Hit Europe, Korea, and Japan
11 Sep 2025 19:17 GMT
… weakening its European, East Asian and English-speaking allies … dictates.
A company producing agricultural harvesting machinery, the … strains on Korea and Japan. Having demanded that Korea’s … to crash Korean export income (and hence employment and earnings) …
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Focus on China: Government of Canada joins Saskatchewan Government in trade mission
11 Sep 2025 18:41 GMT
… a country like China.”
China is a major … Asian country supported the Canadian canola industry, which provided employment … China and other Asian countries, such as Japan and South Korea. … with international food, agriculture and energy industry stakeholders …
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Central Asia’s Cotton Harvest: Between Reform, Coercion, and Economic Strain
11 Sep 2025 16:02 GMT
The 2025 cotton harvest is underway across Central Asia, revealing the region’s ongoing struggle to reconcile long-promised reforms with persistent coercion and deepening economic pressure. Once the crown jewel of Soviet central planning, cotton, long …
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Market Uncertainty in Asia as Geopolitical Tensions and Economic Indicators Clash
11 Sep 2025 12:14 GMT
… , Hong Kong and Sydney promptly fumbled it, leaving the MSCI Asia-Pacific … to press. Japan’s Nikkei and Korea’s Kospi held … supercycle — trillion-dollar server farms, hyperscale data centers, power … a reminder that the labor market story has been weaker …
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Michael Hudson: Trump’s Economic War Against Europe, Korea and Japan
11 Sep 2025 09:57 GMT
… weakening its European, East Asian and English-speaking allies … dictates.
A company producing agricultural harvesting machinery, the … strains on Korea and Japan. Having demanded that Korea’s … to crash Korean export income (and hence employment and earnings) …
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Southeast Asia’s economic model at risk due to U.S. tariffs
11 Sep 2025 08:44 GMT
… economic output and hit employment by as much as … China and channeled into Vietnam, Cambodia, Malaysia and Indonesia.
Southeast Asian … all restrictions on American agricultural imports to avoid higher … new investments by Taiwan, Japan and South Korea to U.S. …
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What can Central Asia Expect from Trump?
11 Sep 2025 05:14 GMT
… Plus meeting in Tianjin, China, which concluded on 1 … received significant investment from China, see Iran as a … undermining America.
Central Asian citizens will form positive … industry and resulting widespread unemployment; agricultural decline and increased …
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Donald Trump Urges European Union to Impose 100% Tariffs on China and India in Bid to Pressure Russia
10 Sep 2025 20:32 GMT
On September 10, 2025, reports emerged that United States President Donald Trump has called on the European Union (EU) to impose steep 100% tariffs on imports from China and India as part of a broader strategy to exert economic pressure on Russia to end …
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Asia week ahead: Key data on China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan
08 Sep 2025 10:42 GMT
China: Trade likely to be stable, while inflation dips again
On Monday, we don’t expect major surprises from China’s August trade data in light of the extension of the US-China trade war truce, which kept tariffs at the status quo. Export growth could slow …