Business
Italy Joined the Belt and Road, Then Left. Who Should Decide These Things?
In March 2019 Italy became the only G7 country to sign up to China’s Belt and Road Initiative. In December 2023 it withdrew. Nothing dramatic happened…
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Business
A Random Group of Irish Citizens Solved a Problem Their Politicians Had Avoided for Decades
In 2016, Ireland did something almost no other country had tried at that scale: it handed one of its most divisive political…
Business
The Coup That Couldn’t Find an Audience
Late on 3 December 2024, South Korea’s president went on television and declared martial law. The decree banned political activity and placed…
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The Prime Minister Broke His Own Law. Nothing Happened.
In April 2022, the Metropolitan Police did something no force had done to a serving British prime minister before: they fined him.…