Afiq Fitri Alias

Afiq Fitri Alias is a data visualisation columnist at Reuters Breakingviews, based in London. He joined Reuters in 2023 and was previously a data journalist at the New Statesman Media Group where he covered UK politics, international affairs, and technology.

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  • Europe risks falling into Levant’s powder keg
    War in Gaza is worsening already dire economic conditions in Egypt, Lebanon and Jordan. Western aid is unlikely to solve their deep problems. Despite efforts to outsource its migration issues, the European Union may find some displaced by a protracted conflict reach its borders.
    20 Feb 2024
  • Measuring the US and China’s conscious decoupling
    President Joe Biden and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping don’t agree on the terminology, but the Sino-American relationship is fracturing. A close look at trade, finance, investment, people and geopolitical noise shows the world’s two largest economies are pulling apart.
    16 Nov 2023
  • Israel highlights fragility of new trade corridors
    The bloody conflict undermines Washington’s vision to use the country’s Haifa port to link India via Saudi Arabia to Europe. It also makes China’s pivot to the Middle East look less of a bright idea. The spoils are huge but reconfiguring trade and financial flows is hard work.
    10 Oct 2023

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