By Ichiro Suzuki In a week of heightened volatility on Wall Street, one noticeable movement in the financial markets was weakening of the Japanese yen.  Af...

By Ichiro Suzuki China has been well known for its accumulation of debt in recent years. The country already passed the U.S. in one measure of debt, and cat...

By Peter Zhang Nicknamed “Wuhan Health Organization” by Chinese netizens, the performance of the World Health Organization (WHO), along with its Director-Gen...

By Ichiro Suzuki As the battle against coronavirus intensifies outside of Asia, it is still way too early to talk about the changes the virus would bring to ...

By Ichiro Suzuki The West has been warning developing countries to be aware of potential pitfalls of excessive borrowing from China through their aggressive ...

By Irchiro Suzuki A recent Harvard Business Review article reveals some facts about China as a global lender. China lends some 150 countries $1.5 trillion th...

The Japanese government played extremely carefully on the last round of consumption tax hike on October 1, from 8 to 10%. It was only 2% but the government n...

By Ichiro Suzuki Earlier this month, Paul Singer of activist fund Elliot Management Corp has announced that his firm has built a $3 billion stake in Softbank...

By Ichiro Suzuki Tesla has lately stunned the investment world with a sharp upswing. Having more than tripled its share price in a few months, Tesla has bec...

By Ichiro Suzuki Writing laws is an easy part. The real game is making the sprit of the law stand. That’s a lot tougher part since it takes cultural change a...

By Peter Zhang Back in May 2014, Stephen Hawking, along with several other scientists, warned the world: “Success in creating AI (artificial intelligence) wo...

By Peter Zhang When Her Majesty’s subjects in the British Commonwealth rise to sing “God Save the Queen” at a World Cup soccer game, few believe, as perhaps...

By Peter Zhang In Homer’s “Odyssey,” the notorious Trojan horse was a formidable gift from the Greeks. Later, the Roman poet Virgil (70-19 BC) wrote in the...

By Peter Zhang Amidst the ongoing debate over so-called fake news in the United States, American media outlets lack any kind of consensus as to what consti...

By Ichiro Suzuki It was called the Japan disease prior to the global financial crisis. The Japanese economy was mired in persistent slow or zero growth and z...

By Peter Zhang It’s safe to assume that Milton Friedman, the 1976 Nobel laureate in economics, wasn’t kidding when he authored “There’s No Such Thing as a Fr...

By Peter Zhang 2019 is the Year of the Pig. Legend has it that one day, the Jade Emperor, a fabled ruler of heaven and Earth, decided to name the zodiac sign...

By Peter Zhang Sausages may look awfully tasty on the plate, but few would perhaps wish to know the entire sausage-making process. These days, while some Wal...

By Peter Zhang With Beijing’s retaliation for Canada's arrest of the CFO of China’s technology giant, Huawei, the Chinese regime has escalated its use of hos...

By Peter Zhang A video showing policemen in Shenzhen walking into a young woman’s apartment last month and taking her away in the middle of the night went ...