This February, TI Observer (TIO) focuses on China-U.S. relations. After the 18 January G20 Bali meeting between President’s Xi and Biden, Vice Premier Liu He and U.S. Treasury Secretary Yellen met in Zurich following the Davos Forum. However, circumstances took a turn for the worst with the “Ballo...
Read moreThis January, TI Observer (TIO) focuses on economic and social recovery in the post-COVID era. In November 2022, China “switched gear,” and adjusted its COVID policies demonstrating the country’s renewed emphasis on economics. The results are clear - after a short period of adjustment China’s ec...
Read moreThis December, TI Observer (TIO) forecasts the global landscape for 2023. In 2022, both COVID and monkeypox linger on all continents, the Russia-Ukraine conflict cracked the fragile geopolitical balance, inflation and recession threatens to ravage the world’s economies, and heat waves and droughts ...
Read moreThis November, TI Observer (TIO) focuses on key leadership changes around the world. From the UK and the U.S. to many of the Latin American and European democracies, voters have expected leadership changes to solve their long-standing concerns. However, as democratic election cycles turn and leaders...
Read moreThis month, TI Observer (TIO) focuses on the global energy crisis. The Nord Stream pipeline that connects Russia and Germany was sabotaged on September 26, and after which, the Norwegian undersea cable was disrupted on October 4. OPEC+ group also agreed to cut its oil production by 2 million barrels...
Read moreThis month, TI Observer (TIO) celebrates its second anniversary edition featuring the 2022 Taihe Civilizations Forum (TCF). Included this month are keynote speeches from the Sub-Session on International Relations and Sub-Session on Economy and Technology, and commentary from senior scholars and youn...
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