At least the UK fits with the colour scheme.
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The UK was a founding member of EFTA in 1960 and only left to join the EU.
A worker at an auto parts plant in Orion Township, Michigan, lifts coiled steel into place.
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The president has promised to put a stop to foreign companies ‘dumping’ steel on US markets. Former President Bush tried the same thing, and here’s what happened.
Terrorism has resulted in higher security surcharges at ports and airports.
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The effects of terrorism in one country spill over across national borders to reduce the trade of other nations. This reduction in trade is long lived and may make it harder to combat terrorism.
Chinese President Xi Jinping may be the only person able to rein in North Korean leader Kim Jong Un.
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China is North Korea’s biggest trading partner by far, giving the former a great deal of leverage over the behavior of its neighbor.
The G20 displayed unprecedented global economic leadership in the past. That leadership is needed again today.
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The G20 has stopped showing economic leadership at a time when risks are high. Australia can play a role in addressing this.
China’s road to global influence runs through Europe.
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European countries are competing against Brussels and each other for China’s affections. And that is undermining the EU.
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To some it seems like the most sensible option, but it would antagonise the hard Brexiteers.
More and more African students head to China each year to study.
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Newly translated Chinese Ministry of Education records shine light on China’s shifting place in the global higher education landscape.
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May’s government is evoking arguments made by the early 20th-century tariff reform campaign of Joseph Chamberlain.
Unlike the European Parliament, the Pan African Parliament does not have supranational law-making powers.
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For real integration to happen, the Pan African Parliament needs to be imbued with supranational law-making powers. But national sovereignty is something that many states are reluctant to give up.
What’s happened a year on?
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It was going pretty well until 2017 began.
The advantages of coins as currency were clear.
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Currency first hit the scene thousands of years ago. An anthropologist explains the early origins and uses of money – and how archaeological finds fill in our picture of the past.
Sparks fly: workers produce steel at a small plant in Shenyang, northeast China.
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Politicians in Europe, the US and the UK have blamed steel industry woes on artificially cheap imports.
Brexit means Brexit.
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With the UK government in disarray, the type of Brexit that Britain faces is again open to question.
The southern African region can benefit from beneficiating produce like sugar.
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The Southern African Development Community (SADC) roadmap towards greater regional trade integration and development is a good start but lacks detail.
Ugandan worker picking tea as exports in the country grows.
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Uganda needs to boost manufacturing and exports to realise the ambitions listed in its social and economic development plan.
The government should focus more on supporting whole towns, rather than propping up certain industries like car manufacturing.
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The side effects of globalisation that have led to our current populist politics will not be successfully addressed by old-style industry policy.
Australian Manuka honey may have to be called something else.
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New Zealand is currently pushing to certify and protect Manuka honey. Should Australia follow suit with King Island Beef?
US President Donald Trump arrives at the Leonardo da Vinci-Fiumicino Airport in Rome.
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European leaders are still trying to decipher Trump’s thinking on NATO, Europe and many other issues.
Surveys suggest Trump’s election is hurting America’s reputation.
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Surveys show Trump’s election is damaging America’s reputation abroad, which research suggests could deal a sharp blow to US trade.