by Aseem Gupta | Aug 9, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
In 2016, JPMorgan Chase agreed to pay more than $264 million to settle allegations surrounding a hiring programme in Asia that had operated between 2006 and 2013. The bank had created a separate pathway for candidates referred by powerful clients, executives and...
by Aseem Gupta | Jul 27, 2025 | Business, Innovation & Industry
Across the high-altitude landscape of China’s Qinghai Province, rows of solar panels stretch towards the horizon. The Gonghe Talatan solar park is not simply one large power station. It is part of a vast collection of renewable-energy projects that reflects the...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 28, 2025 | Geopolitics, States & Global Power
When Russia invaded Ukraine in February 2022, Western governments responded with one of the most ambitious sanctions campaigns ever imposed on a major economy. Russian banks were isolated, foreign reserves were frozen, technology exports were restricted, and Europe...
by Aseem Gupta | Jun 16, 2025 | Economics, Markets & Money
On December 5, 2014, a Korean Air flight preparing to leave New York for Seoul returned to the gate because an executive was angry about a packet of macadamia nuts. Cho Hyun-ah, then a Korean Air vice-president and the daughter of the airline group’s chairman, had...
by Aseem Gupta | May 31, 2025 | Society, Culture & Demographics
South Korea’s fertility rate is rising. In almost any other context, that would sound like unambiguously good news. After reaching a record low of 0.72 children per woman in 2023, the country’s total fertility rate increased to 0.75 in 2024 and then to 0.80 in 2025....
