White House nears unprecedented action on U.S. investment in China (www.politico.com)
Xi tells Kim to step up communications with China as Korean tensions rise (www.scmp.com)
The Rise of the South: Can BRICS Weaken the Dominance of the IMF and World Bank? (www.counterpunch.org)
Chinese FM tells Israeli, PA counterparts Beijing’s ready to facilitate peace talks (www.timesofisrael.com)
ECB's Lagarde: "We are witnessing a fragmentation of the global economy into competing blocs [that] may well coalesce around two blocs led respectively by the two largest economies in the world." (www.ecb.europa.eu)
EU Ambassador To Sudan 'Assaulted' In Home: Borrell (www.barrons.com)
BlackRock Inc.’s assets are set to exceed $15 trillion in five years’ time according to analysts at Morgan Stanley (archive.ph)
Bangladesh finds way to pay Russia for nuclear plant: with yuan (archive.ph)
Chinese defense minister starts first foreign visit to Russia, highlighting bilateral military ties (www.globaltimes.cn)
China is shifting focus from high growth to job creation, which is more conducive to the implementation of structural reforms and the adoption of new technologies (archive.ph)
Lavrov to visit Brazil, Nicaragua, Cuba and Venezuela (kawsachunnews.com)
German armsmaker Rheinmetall suffers cyber attack (www.reuters.com)
Abandoning the US, More Scientists Go to China (www.cato.org)
Why so many democracies prefer Russia to Ukraine (asiatimes.com)
US admits defeat in information war with Russia in Africa (archive.ph)
China's exports in March were $315.59 billion, up 14.8% from a year earlier, far exceeding market forecasts (news.cgtn.com)
Inflation in Russia has fallen to 3.5% - almost to the level of Japan and much lower than in the U.S. and the Eurozone (archive.ph)
Close cooperation with China can help Brazil deal with three major challenges (www.globaltimes.cn)
Western method for dealing with insolvent economies is unravelling owing to a powerful and unpredictable force in sovereign debt as China undermines the western-designed global financial architecture (archive.ph)
US-Saudi Oil Pact Breaking Down as Russia Grabs Upper Hand (archive.ph)
Brazil’s Lula calls for end to dollar trade dominance. Leftist president lends his voice to Beijing’s efforts to boost renminbi’s role in global commerce. (archive.ph)
‘The situation is quite fragile’: The IMF just issued its weakest outlook for the world economy in 3 decades (finance.yahoo.com)
Lula canceled Temer/Bolsonaro era privatization procedures underway against 3 profitable state companies this week (twitter.com)
NYT inadvertently admits that all the war planning happens in US, and Ukrainians aren't even allowed to access these plans. (lemmy.ml)
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