China’s trade surplus hit a record high in 2024, a symbolically potent $1 trillion. The optics of that rounded-up figure—the ...

When governments subsidize low productivity and penalize high productivity with enormous taxes, the economy suffers. This is ...

China’s DeepSeek shook the tech world and how. But is the AI chatbot better than its rivals, ChatGPT, Copilot, and Gemini? We analyse this and talk about other big stories from around the world in our ...

US President Donald Trump has said he will follow through with his threat to hit imports from Canada and Mexico with 25 percent border taxes, known as tariffs, on 1 February. But he added that a ...

Leaders including Germany’s Olaf Scholz, France’s Emmanuel Macron and Denmark’s Mette Frederiksen have jetted across the ...