Highlights
More LNG demand growth coming from short-term, spot market
Qatar relies heavily on long-term deals, big customers
China seeking to diversify supply from US, Australia
A new wave of LNG importers borne out of China's gas market reforms is the new growth opportunity in Asia's LNG market, but their limit...
Charles M. Schulz’s “Peanuts,” which ran from 1950 to 2000 and lives on in syndication, is one of the world’s most successful and marketable comic strips. Much of its universal appeal lies in a light-hearted humor that steers clear of controversy: Charlie Brown’s trials on the pitcher’s mound, Lucy’s one-sided crush on Schroeder, and Snoopy’s trans...
With COVID corralled for now, the G-7 band got back together last week. In the past, whenever the heads of the free world’s seven leading economies gathered, they served up pretty much only nothing-burgers, smothered in bupkis, with a side of zilch.
This, the first post-pandemic G-7 summit, delivered more of the same. However, this was also Joe B...
Jun 19th 2021TWENTY YEARS ago, it might have been the plot of a trashy airport thriller. These days, it is routine. On May 7th cyber-criminals shut down the pipeline supplying almost half the oil to America’s east coast for five days. To get it flowing again, they demanded a $4.3m ransom from Colonial Pipeline Company, the owner. Days later, a simi...
While Greenville earns its way onto dozens of “best” and “top” lists – “Best Small City,” “Top Foodie City,” “Best Main Streets,” – Bajeyah Eaddy wants people to remember that Greenville is also a place where people struggle to earn their way out of poverty.“People are seeing Greenville as one of the best places to retire, one of the top places to ...
Joe Biden and Vladimir Putin met yesterday at a Geneva summit that could not have been more different to the meeting there between Mikhail Gorbachev and Ronald Reagan in 1985. The Cold war-era iteration allowed three days for talk and negotiation; yesterday it all happened in a single afternoon. President Putin arrived stra...
Location of Istanbul Canal (Photo: Randam/Wikimedia Commons)
Istanbul’s geographical positioning, rich cultural heritage, religious symbolism and location as a major trading routes’ crossroad led Napoleon Bonaparte to once declare that “if the Earth were a single state, Constantinople would be its capital.” Sandwiched between Europe and Asia, Ista...
Some lawmakers are trying to stop 144 U.S. cities from losing their designations as "metropolitan areas" as the federal government updates its standards, doubling the minimum number of residents required in a city's urban core to 100,000 people.Sens. John Thune, a Republican from South Dakota, and Mark Kelly, a Democrat from Arizona, introduced le...
During a U.S. presidency, the stature of which has grown steadily in the estimate of historians, Dwight D. Eisenhower’s success flowed from two critically important insights. The first was that American military power and diplomatic influence was absolutely dependent on the might of the U.S. economy. The second was embodied in his often-quoted Fare...
The Covid-19 pandemic has attacked not only our individual bodies, but our collective body as well. With the help of thirteen writers, mostly from former socialist countries where the space of freedom is contracting once again, this special issue of e-flux journal asks what this collective body actually means, and what it has become.
These...
