Tag Archives: China

Looking for an electrification project that really dents global oil demand, one has to look past Tesla and towards China’s massive fleet of electric buses. Close to 400,000 have been introduced to Chinese streets in a coordinated effort by the Chinese government …

“The nation that will insist upon drawing a broad line of demarcation between the fighting man and the thinking man is likely to find its fighting done by fools and its thinking by cowards” (William Francis Butler) Pakistan is facing a …

Italy is projected to be the first G7 nation to officially endorse China’s Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). And that’s raising the ire of both the European Union and the United States. Having re-entered a recession at the end of …

At the heart of the current US trade war with China is tariffs on imports like steel, sorghum and silicon chips. But, with the growing role of data and digital technology in the world economy, a new arena of digital …

The Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI) has released new data on the volume of global arms exports between 2014 and 2018. During that period, the United States, Russia, France, Germany and China accounted for 75 percent of all arms exports. Between 2009-13 and 2014-18, the …

The smart home market in the U.S. brought in close to 5 billion dollars in 2018. China was the only other country to gross over a billion dollars in smart home revenue. While China’s smart home market is currently about a fifth …

Steel production as well as consumption is contingent upon the economic growth. Whenever there is robust economic growth, the consumption and prices of steel move northwards. Economic growth entails monumental government spending on infrastructure which culminates in employment generation, surge …

Pakistan unlike China, India, United States, Iran, Turkey, Brazil, Russia, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia and Vietnam may not be among the top ten cement producing countries in the world. However, it is widely accepted in the world that the quality of …

It’s one of the biggest threats to the global economy, and it could finally be near a resolution: the trade war between China and the United States. President Trump has said that the two economic superpowers are close to a deal to …

Ahead of the U.S.-North Korea summit in the Vietnamese city of Hanoi, the North Korean government has released a statement announcing a shortfall of 1.4 million tons of food for 2019. The government citied adverse weather as well as United …

Under the first phase of FTA, Pakistan’s trade balance with China had worsened, and it had registered $12 billion mark in financial year 2016-17. Last year, the talks on second phase of Free Trade Agreement (FTA) could not reach a …

The Ministry of Finance statistics showed that Pakistan’s imports are mostly concentrated in a few markets. The country’s imports from states like China, Saudi Arabia, UAE, and Indonesia constitutes greater than 50 percent of the total imports. During fiscal year …