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China may have gained Meng's freedom but at what price?

Power Play is a weekly column that looks at various facets of US-China rivalry and its implications for Asia. It was a moment orchestrated for TV cameras – Huawei’s chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou waving to the crowd below, her bright red dress matched by the red Chinese flag emblazoned prominently on the side of […]

‘A failure foretold’: Mexican president’s business brawl gets political

By Dave Graham MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican business leaders fed up with President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador are beginning to marshal support for political outsiders to weaken him at the ballot box next year, in an unfolding strategy that may also fuel greater division. Lopez Obrador has alarmed investors with idiosyncratic policymaking since taking […]

US election: Donald Trump v Joe Biden – the race to be President

Joe Biden has overtaken Donald Trump in a key battleground state in a move that puts him on the cusp of securing the Presidency. The Democrat has taken the lead in Pennsylvania, where a victory for the former vice president would push him past the threshold of electoral votes needed to win the White House, […]