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Our correspondent columns — focused, regular, region-specific analysis from experts embedded in their beats.

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Pacific Money
3x weekly

The economics and business of Asia-Pacific. Trade flows, currencies, markets and the companies making and losing fortunes across the region.

Marcus Chen Wei
📍 Singapore
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Indo-Pacific Watch
2x weekly

Strategic competition, security economics, and the diplomatic manoeuvring reshaping the world's most consequential theatre.

James Okonkwo
📍 New York
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Trade Frontlines
Weekly

On-the-ground dispatches from the factories, ports, and markets where trade policy becomes lived reality for workers and businesses.

Ravi Krishnamurthy
📍 Chennai
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European Dispatch
2x weekly

Inside the Brussels machinery and Berlin ministries where EU trade policy is made, argued over, and ultimately decided.

Sophia Hartmann
📍 Brussels
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Africa Rising
Weekly

The economics and geopolitics of a continent rewriting its relationship with global trade. AfCFTA, commodities, fintech, and more.

Aisha Okafor-Williams
📍 Lagos
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Gulf Intelligence
Weekly

Energy markets, sovereign wealth, Vision 2030, and the Gulf's strategic repositioning as a global trade and investment hub.

Fatima Al-Rashid
📍 Dubai
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UK Trade Desk
Weekly

Post-Brexit Britain's FTA strategy, CPTPP membership, and the complex architecture of rebuilding a global trade identity.

Natalie Thornwood
📍 London
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Japan-Korea Corridor
Weekly

The complex diplomatic and economic relationship between two of Asia's most advanced economies — rivals, partners, and reluctant allies.

Kenji Watanabe
📍 Tokyo
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SME Global
Weekly

How small and medium businesses navigate a world of tariff wars, FTA opportunities, and supply chain disruption. Practical, ground-level analysis.

Rahul Bose
📍 Mumbai
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