Trading Avocadoes for Political Influence 
How banking giant ICBC helped Chinese firms gain a foothold in Europe’s wind market 
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Tô Lâm’s strategy poses risks in an uncertain world …
Corruption
Amid a scam crackdown, crypto giants keep fueling bitcoin ATMs
As governments seek to ban the machines, bitcoin ATMs remain entwined with cryptocurrency industry’s most mainstream players. …
Old Wounds, New Deals
Seoul, Tokyo agree on energy swap as Hormuz crisis deepens …
Singapore Court to Rule on Bloomberg Defamation Suit
Loss by top officials would be a historic first …
Trump, Xi, and a Defining Moment for the World
An examination of the deeper meaning behind the Trump-Xi summit in Beijing, and why its consequences will ripple far beyond China and the United States…
David Lapp on the Case Against Forcing Residential Consumers to Pay for Skyrocketing Data Center Costs
On March 4, corporate leaders from Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, Oracle, and xAI went to the White House and signed something called the Ratepayer…