Tag: World Economic Forum

Trump’s WEF speech warns businesses on tariffs, but economic realities make his threats ineffective.

In 2020, China was the only major world economy to grow in that pandemic-ravaged year.

It’s not just indifference. It’s an active, and deadly, cavalier attitude toward the lives of others: an example other nations follow.

We need to discard the Cold War mentality and seek peaceful coexistence and win-win outcomes.

What is required is a global consensus and the will to make the planet more sustainable ...

Trump urges us to carry on, while Mnuchin suggests that Thunberg numb her soul with the opium of mainstream economics.

Our house is burning and we are not doing enough. Leadership must come from the private sector.

Many of us tend to see him as an aberration in the U.S. democratic experiment ... and sincerely hope he will either be impeached or lose the upcoming U.S. presidential election.

Mini-dictators might not have dared if it weren’t for the atmosphere created nationally. The impeachment proceedings in the US raise the hope that anti-democrats can be challenged with vigor.

And this week, Donald Trump, who is in the process of withdrawing the United States from the Paris agreement on climate change, will strike quite a different tone on the Swiss slopes.

India has consistently pushed back every time Donald Trump has raised the Kashmir issue and yet Trump has gone on to offer to mediate on the issue, causing consternation in foreign policy circles.

The 50 years of Davos reflects the process of China integrating into the world and how the country and the world have mutually shaped each other.