Opinion

  Grant Wyeth SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS As it seems that Brexit was primarily driven by an anti-immigration sentiment, and the rise of Donald Trump in the United States is fueled by similar concerns, it could be reasonable to suspect that these countries’ southern cousin Australia may succumb to similar forces within its current election campaign. However, thankfully, this is ...

  If you are reading this column, the world still exists. This should come as a relief to anyone who has been reading the commentary about the U.K.’s allegedly terrifying and catastrophic vote to leave the European Union. The vote could lead, some forecasters say, to a global recession (one that, knowing today’s press, will inevitably be called a “Brecession”). ...

  Three Amigos summit that will bring three American leaders together — US President Barack Obama, Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau — in Ottawa, is set to avail a strategic pledge to have their countries produce 50% of their power by 2025 from hydropower, wind and solar and nuclear plants, carbon capture and storage, ...

  Robert Farley SPECIAL TO EMIRATES BUSINESS Cold War politics made for strange bedfellows. Albania and the People’s Republic of China became fast friends, because of a shared aversion to the Soviet Union. The United States developed a cordial relationship with Romania, despite the brutality of the CeauÈ™escu government. Both China and the United States became far too defensive of ...

It’s the summer of 2019, three years after British voters stunned the world by voting to leave the European Union. The U.K. has regained its economic and financial footing, as well as its national confidence. A smaller and more unified European Union now functions in a more coherent fashion. But the road has been bumpy and, as a result, the ...

  Few analysts following developments at the Nuclear Suppliers Group (NSG) plenary in South Korea expected India’s membership bid to sail through. As the dust settles, what is clear is that Xi Jinping’s China differs considerably from Hu Jintao’s China. The latter did not want to stand alone; the former is on the path to establishing China as the challenger ...

  At the recent Shanghai Cooperation Organization (SCO) Summit in Tashkent, Uzbekistan, Afghan President Ashraf Ghani discussed the threats posed by “destructive change” and the countless opportunities offered by “creative change” in the Eurasian landscape and its emerging continental economy. He told his counterparts that “our greatest common project is the revival of the Silk Roads,” whose main gateway is ...

  WASHINGTON It turns out that the middle class isn’t stagnant after all. You know the conventional wisdom. The richest 1 percent of Americans have siphoned off all the income gains of recent decades. Everyone else is treading water. The claim has been repeated so often that it’s taken on the aura of truth. The reality is different: Living standards ...

  A new confrontation is in the offing between London and Brussels over the timing of Brexit process, as the EU wants the UK to immediately invoke the Article 50 to start the exit process to allay concerns of possible domino effect, and reassure perturbed markets. But London seeks an orderly exit during which the new relationship will be defined ...

  Albert R. Hunt The contempt that Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump express for each other will continue to play out in vitriolic sound bites. But their profound differences on what to do about the economy and the struggling middle class are far more important. “This election will be won by whichever candidate convinces middle-class voters they are better for ...