Ian Bremmer is the president of Eurasia Group and GZERO Media and author of Us vs. Them: The Failure of Globalism.

GLASGOW, Scotland -- The European Union will announce a new overseas infrastructure investment framework this week to compete with China's Belt and Road Initiative.

HANOI -- Vietnam is set to benefit from a flood of capital from European investors, led by companies based in the U.K. and France, as they vie for opportunities in the Southeast Asian country in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic.

PALO ALTO, U.S. -- Students from overseas are slowly returning to America, with enrollment inching up 4% on the year this autumn after plunging by double digits in the pandemic-hit 2020-21 school year.

SINGAPORE -- Singapore state investor Temasek is temporarily halting new investment in Chinese tech companies due to uncertainty over Beijing's crackdown on the sector.

SHANGHAI -- China's home prices continued to flash warnings in October, fresh statistics show, underscoring weaker demand amid authorities' ongoing campaign to rein in speculation.

SHANGHAI/HONG KONG -- The Beijing Stock Exchange, China's newest bourse, opened to a mixed reception on Monday, with debuting companies soaring while listings carried over from a preexisting board mostly fell.

Nikkei Asia is tracking the spread of the coronavirus that was first detected in the central Chinese city of Wuhan.

Cumulative global cases have reached 253,269,523 according to Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore. The worldwide death toll has hit 5,099,867.

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