Not so long ago, the conventional wisdom was that if the U.S. economy were to sneeze, the rest of the world would contract pneumonia. My, how much the world has changed over the past ten years. Now ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. For nearly 200 years, two transformative global forces have grown in tandem: economic ...

More and more regions around the globe combine economic growth with reducing carbon emissions, researchers found. Their study highlights the vital role of national climate actions in decoupling ...

Unlike in Europe or the U.S., there is little debate in China about the importance of “economic security” and the political tools necessary to achieve it. Southeast Asian nations are promising ...

A new study documents the dramatic change in America's material diet from 1900 to 2020—ongoing shifts in US commodity consumption patterns with profound environmental, economic, and geopolitical ...

Europe needs a "more mature" attitude to trade and must avoid a global decoupling while it secures its economy and addresses Chinese state subsidies, the EU's economics chief Paolo Gentiloni told CNBC ...

The global economy as we know it is dying. Around the beginning of the 18th century, a “Great Divergence” began between ‘the West and the Rest’ – one that tipped the global socioeconomic scales for ...

Since 2019, Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) investments by China have markedly declined. According to Boston University’s Global Development Policy Center, China’s overseas development finance in 2019 ...

U.S. and China decoupling could pose a risk to markets. Why China is targeting the iPhone. Will Beijing's stimulus efforts be enough to boost its struggling economy? Increasing tensions between the ...

While the notion of economic decoupling from China has received a good deal of attention, there has been almost no action. President Donald Trump’s phase 1 deal is intended to expand trade, American ...

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