Calls for boosting the slowing global economy, dominated G20 forum on Saturday as the declining growth in China and Britain’s vote to leave the European Union (EU) threaten to cut global growth. With their eyes set on turning the slowing economic growth around, central bank chiefs and finance ministers from the world’s top 20 economies met in the southwestern ...

  Conor Sen Those who argue that the U.S. Federal Reserve should keep interest rates low typically point to the same piece of evidence: The central bank’s preferred measure of inflation remains below its 2 percent target, suggesting that the economy still needs stimulus. What they ignore is that during the dot-com and housing booms of the 1990s and 2000s, ...

Following their assertive actions in the East China Sea in recent years, Chinese foreign policymakers now find themselves under considerable pressure. China’s expansionist strategies in the East and South China Seas have earned Beijing widespread criticism from the international community. When Japanese foreign minister Fumio Kishida visited Beijing in April, his Chinese counterpart, Wang Yi, was not happy. One of ...