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Reforming the WTO for a greener future

Wendi Wiliyanto Climate change is a major hazard in the international trade system, with increasingly severe and frequent disasters disrupting the economic activity that has underpinned global growth in recent decades. But despite the significant risks, the World Trade Organization (WTO) – the preeminent multilateral global trade body – has

The Democrats’ Democratic Dividend

CHICAGO – Last month’s midterm elections in the United States were surprising in more ways than one. The Democrats’ unexpectedly

Russia grinds on in eastern Ukraine; Bakhmut ‘destroyed’

Russian forces have “destroyed” the eastern Ukrainian city of Bakhmut, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy said, while Ukraine’s military on Saturday reported

The Global Climate-Finance Challenge

LONDON – The dust has now settled after the United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP27) in Egypt, but there are

China After Zero-COVID

BEIJING – China’s ability to execute major policies is always impressive, and the 180-degree turn on the zero-COVID strategy that

G-7 joins EU on $60-per-barrel price cap on Russian oil

The Group of Seven nations and Australia joined the European Union on Friday in adopting a $60-per-barrel price cap on

No Easy Exit from Zero-COVID

– S. Alex Yang and Angela Huyue Zhang HONG KONG – Following a deadly fire in a residential building in

Book Review: “Egypt Until Democracy”

Globalization, rapid growth of science and technology and, most importantly, communication have challenged and even transformed all the moral and

UN climate deal: Calamity cash, but no new emissions cuts

For the first time, the nations of the world decided to help pay for the damage an overheating world is

Musk restores Trump’s Twitter account after online poll

Elon Musk reinstated Donald Trump’s account on Twitter on Saturday, reversing a ban that has kept the former president off