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China's Provinces Show Evidence Of Financial Pressure And The Economy's Imbalances Authored by Milton Ezrati via The Epoch Times, Some 28 provinces and separate jurisdictions increasingly have had to turn to Beijing for help closing budget gaps, according to China's Ministry of Finance. People walk next to a screen with a stocks indicator in the Jing'an district in Shanghai, China, on April 7, 2025. Hector Retamal/AFP via Getty Images It is not unusual for Beijing to have to chip in. It gets the lion's share of the country's tax revenues. But the growing...

Days ahead of another round of talks with US negotiators — and on the heels of more saber-rattling by the Trump administration — Iran is touting the potential mutual economic benefits of a deal that would terminate the West’s long-running sanctions regime against the second-largest and second-most-populous country in the Middle East.   “For the sake of an […]