Category Archives: World Trade, Economy, & FTAs

APEC Summit in SF on 15th Nov 2023; Xi and Biden met for four hours on the sidelines of the Summit; What are the key issues on the table?

. =========== . What Xi got out of his meeting with Biden The summit has been vital for the Chinese President’s bid to stabilise the domestic situation, and potentially to gain more access to US businesses. Tom Harper UPDATED 20 … Continue reading

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Xi-Biden met in SF on 15th Nov 2023 at sidelines of APEC Summit; To ease superpower rivalry and geopolitical tensions; How will the US’s bashing of China end, and when?

============= . ‘Planet Earth is big enough’: Biden, Xi vow to ease tensions US President Joe Biden (right) and Chinese President Xi Jinping (left) walk together after a meeting during the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation Leaders’ week in Woodside, California on … Continue reading

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Single currency and world peace in Jakarta Post 17Jan2011; Should Singapore devalue the S$ to make exports cheaper? World dominance – will it bring unity, love and harmony and world peace? Water and money, etc – Let it flow, not stagnate;

======== . The suggestion by the ST Forum writer [ST Forum, 22nd Nov 2023, copy below] that MAS should consider devaluing the SGD to improve Singapore’s export rate is at best a populist move. ST Forum believes the letter deserved … Continue reading

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