Highlights Remaining 2.2 mil mt to be supplied by small miners Miners expect ban to be partially revoked on Jan. 5 Supply to remain tight till February: miners Major Indonesian Continue Reading
China imposed a partial shutdown on the 1.3 million residents of Yuzhou, a city in the central province of Henan, after finding three asymptomatic cases of Covid-19. Hong Kong also Continue Reading
Pakistan’s natural gas shortage is hurting its most important export industry, putting even more stress on an economy already struggling with accelerating inflation and a weakening currency. About $250 million Continue Reading
Chinese officials have pledged to alleviate food shortages in Xi’an for residents locked in their homes as the country battles its worst Covid-19 outbreak since the coronavirus pandemic started in Continue Reading
China’s meticulous plans to prevent an Olympics-seeded COVID-19 outbreak by sealing all participants inside a “closed-loop” for the upcoming Winter Games will be tested by the emergence of the highly Continue Reading
Germany is contemplating further measures to contain Covid-19 as the omicron variant threatens to become the dominant strain in the country by mid-January. When Chancellor Olaf Scholz meets with state Continue Reading
China faces “unprecedented” difficulty in stabilizing trade next year as favorable conditions that boosted export growth this year won’t be sustainable, according to a commerce ministry official. Export gains may Continue Reading
Nature and geopolitics can interact in nasty ways. The historian Geoffrey Parker has argued that changing weather patterns drove war, revolution and upheaval during a long global crisis in the Continue Reading
Beijing’s commitment to step up purchases of U.S. goods and services under a 2020 trade pact expires Friday with China expected to miss its targets by a wide margin, creating Continue Reading
Chinese authorities have asked that state companies reduce their energy consumption and carbon dioxide emissions by 2025 compared to 2020 levels as part of China’s plan to have its CO2 Continue Reading
