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The Talk
Major characteristics of the global economy today involve
China:
On the production side, computer chips and AI among others
are key elements
Yet there are many others. Including mineral extraction and
refining:
1) Consumption patterns are
also evolving 2) Food & Beverage provide
notable example 3) Among Services, tourism by
Chinese is booming 4) These trends are likely to
continue in many ways and to accelerate 5) All of them depend in one
way or another for delivery via the Belt & Road 6) Which brings us back to the
crises in the Middle East . . . Including Lebanon…
Riad al Khoury
Riad is a Jordanian
who advises, lectures, trains and researches on topics including Business, Socio-Economic Development,
Political Economy and Geopolitics, publishing on them and other subjects, as
well as making media contributions. He holds a High School Diploma from l’Ecole
internationale de Genève, a BA majoring in Economics from the American
University of Beirut and an MLitt in the same subject from the University of
Oxford.
Among many other
activities, Riad currently a member of the World Trade Organization Network of
Arab Trainers under which he trains on a range of subjects
including, among others: trade
agreements.
His latest offerings were in this topic were 1)
a course in Riyadh, KSA, for Arab government officials (November 2024) and 2) lectures
in Lebanon to chambers of commerce (January 2025). The latter helped renew my interest
in Lebanese trade in the context of rapidly evolving geopolitics, political
economy and macroeconomics. Link
