Tag: Strangle

Could China strangle Europe’s weapons output with cotton?

This is the first in a four-part series about China’s military development, from weapons and aircraft to its role in the global supply chain and how it compares with the United States. In early May, a chemical plant in China’s central Hubei province exploded, killing three people. The culprit was nitrocellulose, a highly flammable material […]

Colombia’s Interest Rates ‘Strangle’ Economic Growth, Petro Says

(Bloomberg) — President Gustavo Petro lashed out at Colombia’s central bank Wednesday evening, saying that the country’s weak economic growth is due to restrictive interest rates that are throttling internal demand. Most Read from Bloomberg His comments come on the heels of a government report posted earlier in the day that showed first-quarter output lagged […]