"If [President] Trump were to slap a 25 per cent duty ... on US$50 billion worth of Chinese imports, we estimate the direct and first-order impact could be worth 0.1-0.2 percentage point of Chinese GDP," writes Aidan Yao. "Russia made headlines for all the wrong reasons [recently] ... when a clutch of countries led by the U.S. expelled more than 100 of its diplomats and intelligence officers over suspicion that the Kremlin was behind a nerve agent attack on a Russian spy and defector to the U.K...," states an editorial. "Rexit – the firing of Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and Mike Pompeo's nomination as his replacement – has unnerved many in Qatar, but was applauded by pundits in Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE)...," writes Sultan Barakat.