What’s De-risking and How Does It Compare to Decoupling
The newly fashionable term, reflecting an evolution in the discussion over dealing with a rising, assertive China, has a vexing history in financial policy.
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G7 issued Its Strongest Condemnation Yet Of China
G7 issues strongest condemnation of China as it intensifies response to Beijing https://t.co/5tdvGKlFqa— Financial Times (@FT) May 20, 2023
Evening Standard: G7 issues condemnation of China as it intensifies response to Beijing The G7 issued i…
Australia, India, Japan and US take thinly veiled swipe at China
Beijing clearly target of joint statement by Quad group calling for ‘stability in Indo-Pacific maritime domain’The leaders of the Quad group – Australia, India, Japan and the United States – delivered a thinly veiled swipe at Beijing’s behaviour on Sat…
Success, Security of Indo-Pacific Important For Whole World: PM Modi’s Address To Quad Amid China Threat
Hiroshima: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday highlighted the importance of Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue, a group of four countries – US, Australia, India, and Japan) while addressing concerns over Chinese assertiveness in the Indo-Pacific.Addressing Quad leaders US President Joe Biden, Australian PM Anthony Albanese and Japanese PM Fumio Kishida, PM Modi said, "There is no doubt
‘We Will Be Happy To Host Quad Summit In India In 2024,’ Says PM Modi In Japan
Hiroshima: Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Saturday said that India will be willing to host the next Quad (Quadrilateral Security Dialogue meeting in 2024."We will be happy to host the Quad summit in India in 2024," PM Modi said in the opening remarks of the Quad meeting held on the sidelines of a Group of Seven Summit (G7) meeting in the Japanese city of Hiroshima.PM Modi was addressing leaders
G7 countries say they will lessen dependence on China
The G7 nations have declared their intentions to decrease their dependencies on China, but their leaders say they don’t plan to part ways with the world’s second largest economy.
‘War is not an option’, Taiwan president says amid China tensions
TAIPEI (Reuters) — Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen vowed on Saturday to maintain the status quo of peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait amid high tensions with China, which has stepped up military pressure on the democratically governed island…
‘War is not an option,’ Taiwan’s Tsai vows as China amps up aggression
Taiwan will not provoke and will not bow to Chinese pressure, Tsai said in a speech in the presidential office in Taipei marking the seventh anniversary of her governance.
Sunak to urge G7 support for collective action against ‘economic coercion’
Leaders expected to form council that will discuss response if states such as Russia and China boycott trade for political reasonsThe UK and other G7 countries are planning collective action against Russia and China if they threaten trade boycotts for …
Friday Squid Blogging: Peruvian Squid-Fishing Regulation Drives Chinese Fleets Away
A Peruvian oversight law has the opposite effect:
Peru in 2020 began requiring any foreign fishing boat entering its ports to use a vessel monitoring system allowing its activities to be tracked in real time 24 hours a day. The equipment, which tracks a vessel’s geographic position and fishing activity through a proprietary satellite communication system, sought to provide authorities with visibility into several hundred Chinese squid vessels that every year amass off the west coast of South America.
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Instead of increasing oversight, the new Peruvian regulations appear to have driven Chinese ships away from the country’s ports—and kept crews made up of impoverished Filipinos and Indonesians at sea for longer periods, exposing them to abuse, according to new research published by Peruvian fishing consultancy Artisonal…