“China: Xi Jinping set to rule beyond 2023 after Communist Party proposes removal of two-term limit for president”

Feb 26, 2018 | World

Hmm. Well, suddenly our largest future trading partner is to (once again) become a dictatorship with an appalling human rights record, rather than a one-party state with an appalling human rights record. David Cameron’s China Investment Fund doesn’t look quite the cozy retirement project he expected it to be and the fact that China makes most of the non-food stuff we use and buy most days for most of the companies we know and love does not seem quite such a fab outsourcing idea. Plenty of other fish in the sea?

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“China slowdown sends markets plunging”

The gloomy business headlines this week are about China and the end of the economic world it's been driving. Here's another: 'China economy grows at slowest pace in 25 years, world's second-largest economy posts figures that add to fears of a slowdown that will affect...

“UBS moves back into battle for rich Americans”

Proof, if proof were needed that pretty much everything in financial and corporate worlds goes full circle if you wait long enough. The super-rich are often of no fixed tax abode, and it was allegedly the role of Swiss banks to offer safe and anonymous haven for their...