William Courtney, adjunct senior fellow at Rand Corporation and former U.S. ambassador to Georgia and Kazakhstan, discusses the United States’ vetoing of a resolution at the U.N. demanding an immediate cease-fire in Gaza.
Chatib Basri of Bank Mandiri says the solution to expanding the Indonesian government budget lies not with increasing the tax rate but with administrative reform in the tax office.
Michael Pettis of Carnegie China says we are beginning to see the impact of China’s high debt-to-GDP levels and the country will need another source of real growth if the “rapid expansion” of infrastructure comes to an end.
William Stein, technology/industrials equity research analyst at Truist Securities, says “the bear case in the stock and the concern that one might have is that … we’re going to see a normal cycle at some point, when lead times for products are a year or thereabouts, perhaps even longer. Customers tend to over-order, then at some point they get delivered, and then they start canceling orders and you see a downturn.”
Joost Hiltermann, MENA program director at Crisis Group, says that’s because “the United States has not been targeted directly by Iran either.” Will the U.S. attack targets in Iran? We ask this analyst