INTERNATIONAL Trade Secretary Liam Fox came under fire from human rights activists this evening for subsidising construction projects in repressive regimes.
Last week, Mr Fox’s department lent £49 million to a Saudi-owned company to build bridges in Sri Lanka.
And shortly before Christmas, it loaned £28 million to help British firm Bluewater Bio win a waterworks contract in oil-rich Bahrain.
One of the major criticisms of China’s breakneck development in recent decades has been the impact on nature — returning after 15 years away, BEN CHACKO assessed whether the government’s recent turn to environmentalism has yielded results
Trump’s economic adviser has exposed the actual strategy: forcing other countries to provide financial support for US hegemony



