23/05/2019 11:05 - The Day After S-400: The Turkish-American Relationship Will Get Worse War on the RocksFor the 500 or so days since Turkey and Russia signed an agreement for the acquisition and eventual deployment of the Russian S-400 air and missile. ...
23/05/2019 9:05 - Powell just one global central banker under political pressure Economic TimesBy Cagan Koc, Nacha Cattan, and Alister Bull Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell is not alone among central bankers in feeling political heat. ...
23/05/2019 9:05 - Who Is Playing Politics With the Port of Piraeus? The New York TimesATHENS — Piraeus, the gritty port city that has provided Athens’s naval and commercial power throughout its tumultuous history, is the theater of a new conflict, one that pits local interests against economic development and a superpower’s global strategy. At least that’s the story that Greece’s dueling politicians are telling. Greek archaeologists have stalled an investment of more than 612 million euros offered by a Chinese-owned company seeking to revamp and expand Piraeus’s port as part of President Xi Jinping’s Belt and Road Initiative. Early last month, Greece’s Central Archaeological... ...