Led by new boss Zhang Xin, China’s scandal-tainted semiconductor investment fund is set to spend $140 billion in a bid to beat crippling Western sanctions on advanced chips. Past public-sector investments, though, yielded nothing. Xi Jinping’s confrontation with the West has pushed China’s tech sector into a Great Leap nowhere.
Upset over Rahul Gandhi’s remarks needless. Individual views don’t mar India’s global standing
Disruptions in Parliament over Rahul Gandhi’s democracy-under-threat remark in London are unnecessary. Flay him for alarmism, but he isn’t the first to raise domestic concerns on foreign soil. Indira, Morarji, and Modi, too, did it. Individual views don’t make or mar India’s global standing. A proud nation deserves confident politicians.