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Kazakh-Hong Kong dual listing an ‘icebreaker’ for regional belt and road businesses

Kazakh-Hong Kong dual listing an ‘icebreaker’ for regional belt and road businesses

A recent dual-listing at the Astana International Financial Centre (AIFC) in Kazakhstan has been hailed as an “icebreaker” for Kazakh and Chinese issuers who are showing growing interest in pursuing cross-border equity and debt deals. According to AIFC’s governor Renat Bekturov, the debut of tungsten miner Jiaxin International Resources on both the Hong Kong and…

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Can the US, Russia and China break their nuclear talks impasse?

Can the US, Russia and China break their nuclear talks impasse?

US President Donald Trump’s summit in Alaska last month with Russian leader Vladimir Putin failed to revive long-stalled nuclear negotiations or advance efforts to preserve the last major arms control pact between Washington and Moscow, which is set to expire in February. Trump’s subsequent push for trilateral “denuclearisation” talks involving China elicited a firm refusal…

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