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The new head of the World Trade Organization, Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, starts work this week. Hopefully she likes a challengehttps://trib.al/YwphC1s 

Too many people in China are still scarred from past episodes of bogus and unsafe vaccineshttps://trib.al/KiAveQu 

China’s crackdown on divorce, meant to force birth rates higher, will backfire by keeping people from getting marriedhttps://trib.al/6tk5IAY 

China can't fix the global chip shortage, says @anjani_trivedi, because semiconductors require years of hard-won know-how and incredible amounts of money to design and createhttps://trib.al/xSI0kBP 

Just months after clinching the title, Chinese champion Jiangsu FC is out of business. A tale of hype and debt, it says everything about the deflating Chinese soccer bubble, @ClaraDFMarques writeshttps://trib.al/84QhfH9 

Warren Buffett's style may not be obsolete just yethttps://trib.al/0ctE0ua 

While the Bezos-Ambani fight gets all the attention, a lesser-known startup is quietly revolutionizing the way retail is done in India, @andymukherjee70 sayshttps://trib.al/DL422eS 

Zoom's business is still booming. What are other potential winners for 2021?https://trib.al/3Vndqlh 

“ESG” means different things to different manufacturers, which isn’t quite how it should workhttps://trib.al/bhSZLiD 

Biden's new pilot program will help revitalize depressed areas of the country without creating an unreasonable burden on immigrantshttps://trib.al/jko6U1f 

Overall, states that have increased minimum wages remain far more robust than the rest of the countryhttps://trib.al/tQVrA26 

As the U.K. scrambles to bolster its post-Brexit finance industry, it should not dismiss the U.S. SPAC model unless it can devise something better.https://trib.al/39wMFDY 

Simply producing more than you consume might qualify as self-sufficiency, but not true independencehttps://trib.al/wf4lbqD 

Sir Max Hastings: "Many spooks, even if they start out sane, become progressively somewhat unhinged, because their secret world is an inherently unreal one"https://trib.al/00SziFw 

Will 2021 usher in the next Roaring ’20s?https://trib.al/d5FF6iX 

The internet is turning us from passionate investigators to passive consumershttps://trib.al/uaqTYCM 

Condo owners in Florida had already paid to upgrade their power lines. Palm Beach sent them another bill anywayhttps://trib.al/w1GCMNR 

The Oracle of Omaha puts the bond market ructions into all the perspective we needhttps://trib.al/wOg7yB7 

When the outgoing president refuses to attend the new one’s inauguration and falsely claims that the election was stolen, it’s not surprising that many Republicans already disapprove of Bidenhttps://trib.al/TeYkwNR