Jordan’s Economic Resilience in the Face of Global Challenges
Jordan’s recent governmental forum on the shores of the Dead Sea highlighted the nation’s financial resilience in a turbulent global economy. Minister of Planning and International Cooperation Zina Touqan emphasized the importance of global economic trends in shaping Jordan’s fiscal strategies. The forum underlined the urgent need to fund the Jordanian response plan to the Syrian refugee crisis, with only 9 percent of requirements being met so far.
Exclusive: China readying $143 billion package for its chip firms in face of U.S. curbs
China is working on a more than 1 trillion yuan ($143 billion) support package for its semiconductor industry, three sources said, in a major step towards self sufficiency in chips and to counter U.S. moves aimed at slowing its technological advances.
