The End of British Diplomatic Ambiguity

As US-Sino Tensions Escalate, Post-Brexit Britain Must Definitively Choose a Side When, on the 23rd June 2016 the BBC’s veteran political broadcaster David Dimbleby declared ‘we’re out‘, as the result of the the British-EU referendum, the economic and geopolitical landscape was one of flourishing world trade, established globalisation and apparently benign diplomatic relations between theContinue reading “The End of British Diplomatic Ambiguity”

China Resorts to ‘Helicopter’ Shopping Vouchers

China’s economy shrank 6.8% in the first quarter of 2020, official data shows, the first such decline since at least 1992, when Chinese publication of GDP records began.  The historic slump in the world’s second largest economy has prompted the government to issue free shopping vouchers, in an attempt to incentivise consumer spending.