On the 31st of May 2021, China announced its 3-child policy in an attempt to address the challenges associated with it ageing population. The decision comes weeks after the release of the latest census results which predicts a rapidly ageing population and decreasing population of economically active (The Economist, 2021). Indeed, last year, China’s births fell to their lowest in …

The use of cryptocurrencies has exploded in recent times, from Bitcoin to Ethereum there is today a fairly wide range of options of these types of currencies, which it has been speculated, may bring major changes to the use and ownership of money. The cryptocurrency that has attracted a significant amount of attention is the new electronic Chinese yuan (e-CNY), …

Recently the United Kingdom and Australia were able to broker an “agreement in principle” for a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the two countries. This “agreement in principle” was published on the 17th of June and is regarded as a crucial step, particularly for the UK, as it is its first major FTA agreement since Brexit was completed and Britain …

The presence of dynamics regarding misogyny are not new occurrences. Regardless of the definition one employs, misogynistic behaviour is an old phenomenon that probably dates to before people started writing about it. Some argue that misogyny and its conceptualisation began in Ancient Greece, signalling the work “Theogony” by Hesiod, between the 8th and the 7th century BC (Roberts and Roberts …

In late May of this year, Lithuania announced it would not participate any longer in the 17+1 format initiated by China to promote its Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) in Central and Eastern European countries. Affirmations by Chinese authorities emphasize that it is a cross-regional “cooperation based on voluntarism, extensive consultation,openness a nd inclusiveness” and that it has “brought tangible …

The idea of a Universal Basic Income (UBI) is not a contemporary one and has been gradually permeating the political discourse. Its roots are typically traced to Thomas More’s Utopia (1516) and, since then, the concept of a Universal Basic Income has not only resisted the test of time but has been thoroughly developed and embraced by diverging ideologies (see …

 Euroscepticism empowered by the new crisis. Around the mid-1990s the European Union was as his peak of popularity as measured by Eurobarometer data.[1] The data reflects deeper trends such as the collapse of the Soviet Union and the end of the Cold War which had had a deep impact on European history in a way given the European Union a …

 Digital technologies and polarization From newspapers to television, the different means through which people share knowledge and information, and their subsequent evolution, have played a major role in shaping peoples’ views (Shanahan et al. 1999, p. 2). With technological developments, we have reached an age where communication and information sharing has never been so fast and widespread. This moulding of …

The U.S. economy added the biggest number of jobs in more than 1-1/2 years in February, but a slowdown in wage growth pointed to only a gradual increase in inflation this year Nonfarm payrolls jumped by 313,000 jobs last month, boosted by the largest rise in construction jobs since 2007, the Labor Department said on Friday. The payrolls gain was …

Airbus urged the German government on Wednesday to ensure domestic firms get a big share of a near 4-billion-euro contract earmarked for the country’s next generation of heavy-lift military helicopters. German defense officials have said they want a low-risk heavy-lift helicopter that already exists, which means the likely supplier will be one of the two biggest U.S. weapons makers – …