Kazuhiro Kida

(Nikkei Asian Review) — The new coronavirus pandemic has thrown global financial markets into turmoil, prompting countries to introduce a raft of financial and fiscal measures to counter its effects on the economy. Despite stock markets having calmed somewhat after a wave of volatility — such as the Nikkei Stock Average swinging more than 1,000 points a day — investors are nervously bracing for more storms.

Kazuhiro Kida & Shinichi Hashimoto, Nikkei Asian Review August 22, 2019 China's BeiDou satellite positioning system has overtaken its U.S. rival in size, a shift with potentially huge implications for both high-tech industry and national security. The U.S. has long been the world leader in satellite-based positioning with its Global Positioning System. China by contrast did not put itself on the map until relatively recently, launching its first such satellite in 2000.