Retail sales in China shrank by 19% in the first quarter of 2020, as consumers were stuck in lockdown and the country’s stores were shuttered. Now that the retail landscape has bee...
Can China step up to fill the global void left by America as Trump pursues an increasingly nationalist agenda? Africa, a key destination for Chinese investment ought to be a good p...
Artificial intelligence (AI) could revolutionise industries from medicine to manufacturing. The benefits, in terms of efficiency, productivity, speed and agility, are undoubted.Fur...
The novel coronavirus (COVID-19) has killed thousands of people around the world since it first emerged in China last December. The World Health Organisation has declared the outbr...
Global pandemic of a novel virus amplified by travel in a globalized world has long been perceived as one of the main ‘black swan’-type risks that could have an immense impact on b...