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Deep tech investing amid heightened global geopolitical tension is best described as a "dynamic multivariate" problem.

(Nov 20): Temasek Holdings will continue to increase its allocation of funds to the US despite escalating trade tensions, the Singapore state investor’s head of Americas John Vaske said.

(June 28): Singapore will focus on regional trade and digital economic agreements to counter the impact of the US-China trade war that’s weighing on the nation’s growth prospects and prompting some economists to warn of a recession risk.

SINGAPORE (May 20): Late last month, at a security forum in Washington, DC, Kiron Skinner, director of policy planning for the US Department of State, described today’s US-China conflict as “a fight with a really different civilisation and a different

SINGAPORE (April 22): As China’s economic growth slows to 6% this year, it is worth noting that the size of its economy, at US$13.6 trillion ($18.4 trillion), is second only to the US, although GDP per capita, at around US$10,000, is still far behind.

WASHINGTON (Feb 8): President Donald Trump said he won’t meet Chinese President Xi Jinping before a March 1 deadline to avert higher US tariffs on Chinese goods, intensifying fears the two won’t strike a deal before the end of a 90-day truce.

SINGAPORE (Dec 11): Fitch Solutions has revised its global growth forecast for 2019 downwards by 0.1 percentage point to 3% to accentuate its view that global growth will slow over the coming years after peaking at 3.4% in 2018.  

SINGAPORE (Oct 21): Heeton Holdings, KSH Holdings, Oxley Holdings and SLB Development have delayed the November launch of its Gaobeidian project in China.

WASHINGTON (Oct 18): The Treasury Department stopped short of declaring China a currency manipulator in its semi-annual report on foreign-exchange rates, averting an escalation of a trade war while serving notice that the US will closely watch the yuan af

SINGAPORE (Oct 15): Industrial mould manufacturing company Hi-P International is expecting lower y-o-y revenue and profit in 3Q18, contrary to management guidance issued in its 2Q18 results announcement.