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29.06.26 - 10:06
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Pandora, Swarovski lose traction in China as shoppers shift to gold and lab-grown diamonds (SCMP)
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Once popular among young Chinese consumers, Danish affordable jeweller Pandora and Austria's Swarovski have closed a large number of their mainland stores amid lost brand appeal, as shoppers now prefer high-end luxury goods or value-preserving products like gold.
Copenhagen-listed Pandora was at its peak in China in 2019, operating more than 240 stores and posting revenue of 1.97 billion Danish kroner (US$300 million). Its mainland sales have declined annually ever since.
Last year, China made......
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06.06.26 - 05:48
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Has Trump Opened Pandora′s Box? (ZeroHedge)
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Has Trump Opened Pandora's Box?
Authored by John Rosenburger, Senior Fellow at Eisenhower Media Network
The limits of U.S. military power are now fully exposed.
2.5 months in to the U.S.-Israeli war against a nation that posed no threat to the United States' vital interests, justified by a pyramid of lies, several things are abundantly clear. President Trump failed to define clear and viable political objectives to achieve in our role as Israel's proxy in yet another war of choice. “Viable” here meaning objectives that are realistically attainable through the military means at a nation's disposal.
In his classic work Strategy, British theorist B. H. Liddell Hart emphasized that a political leader's foremost duty is to ensure that war aims are grounded in military reality. As he famously warned, political objectives must “not demand what is militarily impossible.”
Yet that is precisely the error President Trump committed.
Credit: Wikimedia Commons & Amazon
Without clearly defi...
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