As you read this, thousands of business and government leaders will be making their way to Switzerland - by plane, road, rail, or even helicopter - for an annual meeting to discuss the world's most pressing concerns.

Yet another new year has dawned. But 2017 will be a year like no other. There will be a thunderous clash of policies, economies and politics worldwide.

Although Chinese products have provided consumers cheaper options, they are hurting US domestic production and the US manufacturing base has weakened dramatically over the last few decades.

Despite the 1947 Headquarters Agreement between the US and the UN, which calls on Washington to facilitate the functioning of the UN, the US has denied visas to several heads of governments planning to visit the UN to address the General Assembly or accredited as diplomats.

Over the past decade, whether it is France, Denmark, Germany or the Netherlands, there has been a re-emergence and rise of right wing (and, to a lesser extent, far left) political parties in Europe and a rejection of the centrist globalising liberal “elite”.

It is no secret that President-elect Donald Trump's election caused some concerns in the corridors of power in Beijing.

During his presi-dential campaign, Donald Trump, the candidate, made a number of promises to the US voters, and now it is time to ask whether he can deliver on them! Some of his promises are easy to keep,

Stock markets really are strange beasts. Those of us observing global financial markets expected stock investors to run for cover and scurry off towards safe havens like the Swiss Frank, Japanese Yen, US treasuries and gold following Donald Trump's shocking ascension to US presidency.

The people caught most unprepared by the PM's strike on currency are the bureaucrats. The problem: They've been there, done that.

Cash is king in India, or at least it was. In one single sweep Narendra Modi just scrapped two high-value bank notes in the Indian economy in an all-out war to flush out black money, fight tax evasion and eradicate counterfeit notes that were being used by terrorists.

After a convivial evening at King's College on the Strand, when he boarded the Victoria Line to Earl's Court, Professor Ron Geaves experienced the first public reaction to a Donald Trump victory.

Donald Trump's presidency is going to be a game-changer for the world. The impacts that it will have on major world issues such as terrorism, racism and global finance have been extensively discussed in the public sphere.

It’s no secret that the American public is now increasingly voicing their concerns about free trade and trade pacts such as NAFTA and the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement.

On November 8, the United States will host an intriguing election. As the date draws closer, the results of the election appear harder to forecast.

"It's like Humpty Dumpty fell and broke, and a giant lawn mower ran over it, acid was thrown on the pieces - and a bunch of racist idiots ran off with an arm and a leg. How do you put it together? I don't know." - Republican consultant John Weaver, talking about the present crisis of the Republican Party, to The Boston Globe

Two great sieges are underway in the Middle East, one in Mosul in Iraq and the other in Aleppo in Syria. They have a great deal in common, including the fact that the attackers both depend heavily on foreign air power, but are treated by most international media as though they were completely different events. How similar they are will become clearer with the passage of time.

It was J. Edgar Hoover, the apparently puritan FBI Director, who had let his agents secretively investigate the love life of John F.

As America stands less than three weeks away from actual voting day, all indications are that the next occupant of the most powerful office in the country, and perhaps in the world, will be Hillary Rodham Clinton.

The night before Atal Bihari Vajpayee was to leave for Lahore on his historic bus ride in February 1999, his office was frantic. How to reach film star Dev Anand in the middle of the night?

Even after highly controversial and sometimes unconstitutional and, speaking generally, unpalatable statements by the Republican nominee Donald Trump, and continuous internal and world-wide condemnation for quite some time, there is still almost a consensus amongst the poll analysts that the US Presidential Election 2016 will be a contest to the end, with both sides spending considerable time and money in almost all the 11 swing states.