Contributor(s): Victoria Glendinning | How the East India Company, a dysfunctional commercial entity too big to fail, elevated and then spat out the controversial reformist visionary who lost the Company money but founded a world city - Singapore. Victoria Glendinning is a prizewinning biographer, the author of Elizabeth Bowen, Vita, Edith Sitwell, Trollope ... Show More
Oct 2023
The World According to China with Elizabeth Economy | Uncommon Knowledge | Peter Robinson | Hoover Institution
Elizabeth Economy did her undergraduate work at Swarthmore, earned a master’s at Stanford, and holds a doctorate from the University of Michigan. She served at the Council on Foreign Relations and the World Economic Forum before coming to the Hoover Institution in 2020. Dr. Econo ... Show More
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Dec 2022
Chine: «C'est la pire année de l'économie chinoise depuis des décennies»
La Banque mondiale vient de réviser ses prévisions de croissance pour la Chine, divisée quasiment par deux, on attendait 4,3% de croissance cette année, ce serait finalement seulement 2,7 % et moins de 5% de croissance l'an prochain. Analyse de la situation avec Mary-Françoise Re ... Show More
6m 53s
Oct 2022
China’s Congress: an inflection point?
The 20th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party, which kicked off on Sunday, promises to be one of the most significant events for China in modern history, not only because President Xi Jinping is widely expected to secure an unprecedented third term, but also because it c ... Show More
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