Pushkar Pushp It has been more than a week since Russia has launched a war against Ukraine. The United state and its allies have already put sanctions on Russia. These sanctions aim to weaken its financial assets and the military. However, as we monitor the Russian invasion of …
Read More »The Impact of the Russia-Ukraine Conflict on Global Financial Markets
Since the outbreak of the Russia-Ukraine war, the global capital markets had experienced the initial plunge on February 24, and then stabilized and rebounded in the second trading day on February 25. The three major U.S. stock indexes closed up collectively, with the Dow Jones industrial average, the …
Read More »Geopolitics of Critical Minerals Towards Energy Transition
Akhmad Hanan and Mayora Bunga Swastika There is no denying that all countries in the world should use clean energy in the future. Based on the agreement at the 26th UN Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in Glasglow and several other important international meetings, several countries …
Read More »Russia-Ukraine: Quo Vadis?
Andrey Sushentov On February 24, the era of Russia’s search for its place in the Western-centric world ended. In this world, all political initiatives came only from the West. The Western countries also determined the basic rules of this world and allowed, at their discretion, other participants to …
Read More »China should take a more proactive role in Russia-Ukraine negotiation
Hoyu Huang As the world closely watches the development of the Russian-Ukraine war and the further escalation seems possible, other international parties have also attempted to mediate between Moscow and Kyiv to reach for a cease-fire. Russia and Ukraine haveagreed to start the negotiation in Belarus recently, giving …
Read More »How China-Russian Partnership Could Counter-Balance Negative Effects of Western Sanctions
Ekaterina Blinova China opposed the West’s unilateral sanctions against Russia and barred the SWIFT ban, saying that it has no basis in international law. The FT admitted that Beijing could reduce the pressure of the restrictions by bolstering Russo-Chinese mutually beneficial cooperation in agriculture, hi-tech, banking, energy, and …
Read More »Outlook 2022: Emerging markets
Andrew Rhymer Going into 2022, emerging markets are far better equipped to deal with Covid-19 than a year ago. Economic growth is slowing after the post-pandemic bounce amid a slowdown in China, and tighter monetary and fiscal policy elsewhere in emerging markets. If inflationary pressures ease, so should …
Read More »On the Depth, Transparency and Power of Today’s AI
Anton Kolokin Two years into our last review on state of the artt in the area of artificial intelligence, there has been a widening gap between the seeming omnipotence of neural network models based on “deep learning”, which are offered by market leaders, and the demand for an …
Read More »The Dark Ghosts of Technology
Nassem Javed Last many decades, if accidently, we missed the boat on understanding equality, diversity and tolerance, nevertheless, how obediently and intentionally we worshiped the technology no matter how dark or destructive a shape it morphed into; slaved to ‘dark-technology’ our faith remained untarnished and faith fortified that …
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