Global financial markets have been rocked by President Trump’s tariffs, with trillions wiped off the value of stocks and government bonds in a matter of days. Heavy selling of US sovereign debt, or treasuries, sent the yield up by the greatest one-day amount since September 2022 earlier this week. There is speculation that this sudden…
Katsuji Nakazawa is a Tokyo-based senior staff and editorial writer at Nikkei. He spent seven years in China as a correspondent and later as China bureau chief. He was the 2014 recipient of the Vaughn-Ueda International Journalist prize. Chinese politics have fallen into an eerie lull. Source link
In huge pre-inauguration news, tech titan Elon Musk is slated to be the highest bidder on D.C.’s trendy Line hotel. The recently inducted member of President-elect Donald Trump’s billionaire boys club plans to turn the desirable Northwest digs with 220 rooms into a “private social club” of sorts, according to multiple sources familiar with the…
BEIJING (Reuters) – Apple is in talks with Tencent and TikTok owner ByteDance about integrating their artificial intelligence models into iPhones sold in China, according to three sources familiar with the matter. The U.S. company started the rollout of OpenAI’s ChatGPT into its devices this month, part of the Apple Intelligence product that allows its Siri…
HONG KONG — Prominent economist Stephen Roach has warned against underestimating U.S. President-elect Donald Trump’s campaign promise to slap heavy trade tariffs on China and the rest of the world. “There is a great conviction that the world economy is in perfect shape right now, but here I tell you that is overly optimistic,” Roach,…
Education Minister Giuseppe Valditara said Tuesday that he agreed with an appeal launched by education expert Daniele Novara and psychotherapist Alberto Pellai for under-14s to be banned from owning cell phones and for under-16s to be prevented from having social-media profiles. Valditara has already banned pupils from being able to use smartphones in class…