by Afshin Molavi | Jun 30, 2020 | China Equities, Geopolitics, India Economy, NewPost
As Chinese and Indian troops were clashing in the Himalayas on June 16 in a brutal brawl leading to the deaths of 20 Indian soldiers, hundreds of millions of people across India were enjoying or downloading Chinese-based apps like TikTok and WeChat. No longer. In...
by Afshin Molavi | Jun 17, 2020 | Geopolitics, NewPost, South China Sea
While global headlines focus on the recent clash between Indian and Chinese military forces in a Himalayan border region, China has also flexed its muscles recently in the South China Sea and the Taiwan Strait. Beginning in mid-April, a Chinese survey ship accompanied...
by Afshin Molavi | May 22, 2020 | NewPost, Videos
I was delighted to join colleagues Raymond Karam (AGSIW), Steffen Hertog (LSE), Eman Al-Hussein (AGSIW), and Tariq Haq (ILO), deftly moderated by Robert Mogielnecki (AGSIW), for a discussion on GCC labor markets in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic on May 20. The full...
by root | May 5, 2020 | MENA Business Daily, NewPost
The top business/economic stories from the MENA region as reported in the regional and industry press – May 1-5 Aviation/Tim Clark – “More airlines could have collapsed or consolidated globally without government intervention amid the Covid-19 pandemic and...
by root | Apr 30, 2020 | MENA Business Daily, NewPost
The top business/economic stories from the MENA region as reported in the regional and industry press – April 29-30 Regional Aviation Plummets – “Middle East’s passenger numbers plummeted by nearly half in March, the most disastrous month so far for the...
by root | Apr 29, 2020 | Aviation, Aviation Times Weekly, NewPost
Airbus Survival – “Airbus CEO Guillaume Faury gave a dramatic warning to employees that heralds potentially deeper production cuts than initially planned. ‘The survival of Airbus is in question if we don’t act now,’ he wrote in a letter to...
