SHANGHAI/BEIJING: The U.S. attack on Venezuela will embolden China to strengthen its territorial claims over areas such as Taiwan and parts of the South China Sea but will not hasten any potential invasion of Taiwan, analysts said. Chinese President Xi Jinping‘s considerations about Taiwan and his timeline are separate from the situation in Latin America,…
Liam Rosenior has done little to dampen suggestions that he is on course to become Chelsea’s new manager, sticking by past comments about his desire to work in the Premier League while failing to rule out the possibility that Strasbourg’s Ligue 1 draw with OGC Nice was his “last match” in charge of the French…
I wrote on the 28th December that the best trades for the week would be: Long of the S&P 500 Index. This gave a loss of 1.12%. Long of Silver with a quarter of the normal position size. This gave a loss of 2.72%. Long of Platinum a quarter of the normal position size. This…
SEOUL South Korea‘s President Lee Jae Myung left for China on Sunday, eager to boost economic ties with Seoul’s largest trading partner while keeping a lid on potentially explosive issues such as Taiwan. Lee is the first South Korean leader to visit Beijing in six years and his four-day trip comes less than a week…
During his presidential campaigns, Donald Trump pledged to end “forever wars”, abandon “nation-building” interventions and focus instead on reviving a US economy that, in his telling, had been deindustrialised by a floodtide of imports. Though Trump’s electoral victories cannot be attributed to any one thing, his “America first” narrative certainly struck a chord. But Trump’s…
Hong Kong ranked fourth in a university study on air transit connectivity at 16 aviation hubs across the Asia-Pacific in 2023. Researchers from the National Taiwan Ocean University’s transport science department also said Beijing, Shanghai and Guangzhou experienced declines in connectivity following the Covid-19 pandemic. The paper was published in the Asian Journal of Shipping…
North Korea launched multiple ballistic missiles toward its eastern waters Sunday, according to South Korean officials. The launches took place just hours before South Korea’s president left for China for talks expected to cover North Korea’s nuclear program. South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff said in a statement it detected several ballistic missile launches from…
Welcome to the live coverage of today’s Spanish La Liga matchday 18 clash featuring Real Madrid and Real Betis, at the Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid, Spain. The Los Blancos will not have their talismanic forward, Kylian Mbappe, who misses out due to injury. As for their opponents, Betis come into this game on the back…
Every January, internet searches for the terms ‘diet’ and ‘weight loss‘ surge, gyms become busier and diet trends spread across social media. However, research shows that most people who try the latest quick-fix plan to lose weight and improve their health ultimately don’t keep the weight off or the habits up. Focusing on the number…
Donald Trump said shortly after his action in Venezuela that it was “not going to be a problem” in terms of his relations with China because it would get more oil as a result. The reality is, of course, far more complicated than that. What you can be sure of is that, despite short-term costs…