JOB LOSSES IN MANUFACTURING SECTOR IN SOUTH KOREA VERY WORRISOME

• The manufacturing sector lost 65,000 jobs in the second quarter from a year earlier, a truly dejecting scenario that has continued for the past few quarters driven by the U.S.-China trade anomaly oriented economic slowdown compounded even further by the COVID-19 pandemic, government data ...

Vietnam: The Likely Beneficiary to the US-China Trade War?

January 15, 2020, saw the much anticipated first phase of a trade deal between the US and China materialize, after nearly 18 months of trade war. Even as the United States scrapped plans to levy additional tariffs on Chinese products in December, 25% tariffs still remain on nearly $250 billion wo...