Police crackdowns on Israeli peace demonstrators combined with court rulings and settler organisations are designed to strip Palestinian families of their homes and land. The Israeli state has tried to silence both Israelis and Palestinians who resist, according to Zo HaDerekh (This Is The Way) the Communist Party of Israel’s Hebrew-language weekly
IN August 2019, Larry Fink, co-founder of BlackRock, the world’s largest asset management group, flew to Alaska for a fishing holiday with his mates, Philipp Hildebrand, the former Swiss Central Bank governor and Mike Corbat, the former head of Citibank.
When they arrived, Fink was taken aback to find the water levels very low and wreaths of smoke were drifting across the narrow Bering Strait from Siberia, where the peat in the tundra was on fire.
During his four-decade career, he had worried about the planet in a vaguely do-gooding way, he says, and he used to assume that personal and philanthropic conviction should stay out of his profit-seeking business.
China’s investment and commitment to scientific research is already paying off, pushing the country to the centre stage of global technological advance, writes S Krishnaswamy
Marking milestones in the histories of China and the United States, this week offers a chance to examine two very different visions of the international order, says CARLOS MARTINEZ
Friedrich Merz’s call for a new Plaza Accord ignores how Washington’s 1985 currency ambush destroyed Japan without fixing US deficits — China, a sovereign socialist state with 1.4 billion consumers, cannot be bullied the same way, writes CARLOS MARTINEZ



