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China’s exports rebound, but U.S.-bound shipments plunge for eighth straight month
BEIJING (Realist English). China’s exports returned to growth in November, outperforming market expectations, even as shipments to the United States...
US and Switzerland reach trade agreement after months of negotiations
WASHINGTON (Realist English). The United States and Switzerland have reached a new trade agreement that will sharply reduce tariffs and...
China’s exports surge 8.3% in September as trade tensions with U.S. intensify
BEIJING (Realist English). China’s exports rose at their fastest pace in six months in September, while imports posted their strongest...
Brazil’s beef exports to China surge as trade tensions with U.S. reshape global agriculture
SÃO PAULO (Realist English). Brazil’s beef exports to China jumped 38.3% in September compared to a year earlier, reaching 187,340...
WTO raises 2025 global trade growth forecast but warns of sharp slowdown next year
GENEVA (Realist English). The World Trade Organization (WTO) on Tuesday revised upward its forecast for global trade growth in 2025...
Russia turns back to barter as financial channels narrow
MOSCOW (Realist English). For the first time since the 1990s, barter has re-emerged in Russia’s foreign trade, with companies exchanging...
China’s exports to U.S. plunge 33% as overall growth slows to six-month low
BEIJING (Realist English). China’s exports to the United States fell 33 percent in August, customs data showed Monday, dragging overall...
India–UK free trade agreement set to double engineering exports to Britain by 2030
NEW DELHI / LONDON (Realist English). India’s engineering exports to the United Kingdom are projected to nearly double over the...
China’s exports rebound in June amid fragile U.S. tariff truce
BEIJING (Realist English). China’s exports regained strength in June, rising by 5.8% year-on-year as manufacturers rushed to capitalize on a...
“We Are Witnessing the Messianic Footsteps”: Avigdor Eskin on Israel’s War with Iran
JERUSALEM (Realist English). Israeli public figure and publicist Avigdor Eskin argues that we live in an era of “incredible acceleration,” when...
“Israel is not fighting the Iranian people, but the regime”: Alexander Tsinker on the goals of the operation against Iran
TEL AVIV (Realist English). The war in the Middle East, which began with US-Israeli strikes on Iran, has entered its fifth...
“Armenians are the autochthonous people of the South Caucasus”: geneticist Levon Yepiskoposyan on the Armenian gene pool and its neighbors
YEREVAN (Realist English). Levon Yepiskoposyan – Doctor of Biological Sciences, head of the Laboratory of Evolutionary Genomics at the Institute of...
Oleg Morozov: Mintimer Shaimiev is a sage with political genius
MOSCOW (Realist English). Oleg Morozov, Chairman of the State Duma Committee on Control and a member of the United Russia party,...
China’s Game of Go without rules: How the Celestial Empire “strangles in its embrace” the countries of Latin America and expands its influence in Russia
MOSCOW (Realist English). Doctor of Political Sciences, State Counselor of the Russian Federation First Class Tatiana Poloskova, in an authorial...
Alexander Cheryomin: Karabakh is an ancient Armenian land
MOSCOW (Realist English). If one looks at the history of Yerevan, founded in 782 BC, and studies its architectural monuments, it...
The elimination of El Mencho will not stop the drug business — the threads lead to the corridors of US power
MEXICO CITY (Realist English). Mexico has been engulfed in bloody clashes for several days. After the elimination of drug lord El...
Ceasefire with Iran will not lead to peace — “neither war nor peace” will begin
MOSCOW (Realist English). In his article for Realist English, Stanislav Ivanov, a leading researcher at IMEMO RAS and Candidate of Historical...
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