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Monday, December 22, 2025
TopicBloomberg Opinion

Topic: Bloomberg Opinion

Netflix proves it’s essential, pandemic or not, even though Disney+ is growing in India

It is becoming evident that in streaming, Netflix is more of a stronghold than some might have thought and its market share won’t be so easily pilfered — not even by the Magic Kingdom.

Why Biden needs to come to India’s aid now to battle the Covid-19 surge

Why Biden needs to come to India’s aid now to battle the Covid-19 surge

Why it’s far too early to start panicking over the EU’s Covid vaccine shortages

EU is currently trailing vaccination bellwethers like Israel and UK. But some perspective is in order — first Western vaccines were only approved in December.

Internet’s dark recesses can save social media from itself

The case of Parler app shows how Facebook, Youtube, Google and Apple needn’t worry about getting overtaken.

Vaccination miracle brings Israel back to its roots

The small army of nurses and medical technicians vaccinating people is reminiscent of the "old Israel" which knew how to come together when facing a mortal enemy.

What went wrong in 2020? The Covid mistakes that top the list

Epidemiologists and virologists on what would go a long way toward saving lives — and making 2021 more bearable than 2020.

What Biden should do about Israel and Palestine

The Israeli-Palestinian conflict has a nasty habit of dramatically reasserting its global significance just when it seems to be a historical footnote. Ignoring it would be a huge mistake.

Why Singapore’s cruise fiasco should be a red flag to Davos

The recent Covid scare on board a Royal Caribbean Cruise vessel shows that almost a year into the pandemic, it’s still unwise to take any arrangement, in any place, as set in stone.

Why we may be exactly wrong about technology and inequality

It’s easy for this kind of apprehension to lead to a sort of neo-Luddism in which technology is viewed as the enemy. The new technology could actually help reduce inequality.

Iraq troop withdrawal was Austin’s failure — and Biden’s

What’s puzzling is why Biden would select General Lloyd Austin to be his secretary of defense because of – not in spite of – his role in the US retreat from Iraq in 2011.

On Camera

Violence over Osman Hadi is about Islamist Bangladesh. India-baiting is a distraction

The attack on Chhayanaut, newspaper offices, and the public lynching of a Hindu man show that Bangladesh is heading toward Islamist rule, far removed from electoral democracy.

China is taking India to WTO over subsidies, again. Here’s what it’s arguing before trade body

Dispute will now move to consultative process, which allows the two sides to come to an amicable agreement within 60 days.

Israel has ‘realised who its real friend is’, eyes defence expansion in India amid arms curbs by others

It is argued that India-Israel ties are moving from buyer–seller dynamic to one focused on joint development & manufacturing partnership, a shift 'more durable' than traditional arms sales.

Dhurandhar shows hard cinema is soft power and Pakistan is unapologetically the target

If Pathaan gave both conservatives and liberals room to hide, Dhurandhar extends no such courtesy. Aditya Dhar ripped open that tent of hypocrisy and turned the knife.