The dollar's status isn't under threat anytime soon, but the yuan and euro look most likely to cut into its lead. A "tripolar" reserve currency system is plausible, economist Stephen Jen told Insider.

I’m stealing the “tripolar world” term from my friend Jay Pelosky, head of TPW Advisory, who began using it a while back as part of his regionalised investment strategy, which assumes that the US, ...

Taxanes inhibit cell division and make cancer cells sensitive to radiation therapy. A current study has investigated the underlying mechanisms of this action - and which biomarkers may be useful for ...

WHILE all politics is local, specific issues and events are also affected by the push and pull of global power politics. The bipolar world that emerged after the Second World War was in many ways ...

In words and actions, key foreign policy decision-makers within the Trump administration seem to be signaling a shift away from the United States’ global leadership role. If borne out, these changes ...

In terms of political power equations, the world has seen it all in about a century – “multipolar” to “bipolar” to “unipolar” (and perhaps even “powerless” for a while). If events of the recent past ...

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