U.S. President Donald Trump arrives at a campaign rally at the BOK Center, June 20, 2020 in Tulsa, … [+] Oklahoma. Win McNamee/Getty Images Color China’s Xi Jinping ambivalent about Donald Trump’s re-election prospects. On the one hand, President Xi’s Communist Party knows full well how useful four more years of Trumpian chaos could be…
Pedestrians walk past the Bund Bull statue in Shanghai, China, on Saturday, June 2, 2018. China’s … [+] banks, scrambling to adjust to the government’s deleveraging campaign, are likely to add to pressures on the corporate bond market as they shed more of their massive note holdings and de-risk their balance sheets. Photographer: Qilai Shen/Bloomberg…
People attempt to talk to someone at the Chinese consulate in Houston on July 22, 2020. MARK FELIX/AFP /AFP via Getty Images The Trump Administration’s sudden shuttering of China’s Houston consulate was followed in short order with Beijing announcing Friday that it would close the U.S. consulate in Chengdu, further ratcheting up tensions in the…
Premier Li Keqiang (R) covers his face in his hand as he and China’s President Xi Jinping (L) attend … [+] the fourth plenary session of the National People’s Congress at the Great Hall of the People in Beijing on March 13, 2018. China’s rubber-stamp parliament on March 11 endorsed Xi’s move to abolish rules…
A man wearing a face mask sits along the Kowloon side of Victoria Harbour which faces the skyline of … [+] Hong Kong Island, in Hong Kong on July 13, 2020. (Photo by Anthony WALLACE / AFP) (Photo by ANTHONY WALLACE/AFP via Getty Images) AFP via Getty Images This week we launched the Krane Dynamic…