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Globalisation

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US baseline 10% tariff not ideal but Singapore ‘can live with it’: PM Wong

Workers in Austria. While manufacturing declined in both the EU and US, Europe's exports had increased to give new employment opportunities to workers.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

Why Americans and Europeans disagree about globalisation

It used to seem that the tariff regime initiated by the first Trump administration was shooting itself in the foot, but in fact, globalisation is continuing, just in a different form
Opinion & Features

The perverse globalism of Donald Trump

Containers at the Port of Los Angeles.
Opinion & Features

Tariffs got you down? Brush off the 1930s playbook

Visitors look at cars on display at the Nissan Gallery inside the headquarters building for Japanese automaker Nissan in the city of Yokohama, Kanagawa prefecture on May 13, 2025. Japanese automaker Nissan posted a huge annual net loss of 4.5 billion USD on May 13, while confirming reports that it planned to cut 20,000 jobs worldwide. (Photo by Richard A. Brooks / AFP)
Opinion & Features

Nissan is dying and taking globalisation with it

FILE PHOTO: A cargo ship full of shipping containers is seen at the port of Oakland as trade tensions escalate over U.S. tariffs, in Oakland, California, U.S., March 6, 2025. REUTERS/Carlos Barria/File Photo
Opinion & Features

Bye, bye globalisation? Trump’s tariffs usher in a new economic age

So, what is globalisation's future? Long-distance interdependencies will remain a fact of life as long as humans are mobile and equipped with communication and transportation technologies.
Opinion & Features
PERSPECTIVE

Does globalisation have a future?

The original focus of the Bretton Woods institutions -- ie the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank -- was supposed to be on people and planet rather than merely price.
Opinion & Features
THE BOTTOM LINE

Power, as well as price, matters in a well-run economy

Ratan Tata was as much a global figure as an Indian one – a titan who transformed Tata Group from an idiosyncratic Indian conglomerate into a global behemoth.
Opinion & Features

Ratan Tata was one of globalisation’s giants

AI tools can increasingly help programmers with mundane tasks, as well as help them become more flexible by switching between coding languages faster.
Opinion & Features

AI and globalisation are shaking up software developers’ world

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