Indonesia's Victory Lap on Growth Is Hard to Watch Indonesia is patting itself on the back for a respectable economic start to the year. But President Prabowo Subianto’s team would be wise not to overdo it. Markets aren’t expressing anywhere near the same comfort with the country’s trajectory.
Trump’s Golden Dome Shield to Cost $1.2 Trillion, Watchdog Says President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile-defense shield will cost as much as $1.2 trillion to deploy and operate, six times above current forecasts, according to a new estimate — and would still likely fail to stop an all-out attack.
When Richard Nixon landed in Beijing in 1972 to end a quarter-century of Chinese diplomatic and economic isolation, his hosts were so enthralled with the US president’s airliner that within months they ordered 10 Boeing Co. 707 jets.
That purchase kicked off one of the most consequential commercial relationships in the planemaker’s 110-year history and helped turn China into the world’s second-largest aviation market after the US. Now Boeing is poised to reprise that moment when President Donald Trump heads to China this week in search of his own breakthrough with his counterpart, Xi Jinping.
Boeing Chief Executive Officer Kelly Ortberg is expected to join the US delegation to China and has dangled the prospect of a major deal, saying Trump’s visit would be “a meaningful opportunity for us.” We get more from Bloomberg's Sid Philip. (Source: Bloomberg)
