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Monday, March 16, 2026
TopicChina economic plan

Topic: China economic plan

India isn’t competing with China. It’s up against many city governments

Our root cause analysis of China’s economic growth is wrong. Even though China is a one-party authoritarian State, it is far more decentralised than India.

The end of the Chinese growth miracle & Xi’s economic gamble to avert a Japan-like slowdown

Barry Naughton, economist & expert on China, talks about the challenges of the nation's post-Covid economy & its new focus on 'construction of modernised industrialised system'.

China’s next 5-year plan wants to make it a tech powerhouse

The plan elevates China’s self-reliance in technology into a national strategic pillar, with special focus on chips, the building blocks for innovations from AI to 5G.

On Camera

Gulf conflict pushes Dubai diamond traders to eye Surat for rough stone auctions. But there are hurdles

Industry leaders say India’s complicated customs process and GST levies are deterrents for traders to come to Surat for auctions.

Supreme Leader Mojtaba, the man Iran must keep alive & the secret force ‘tasked with it’—all about NOPO

The Nirouyeh Vijeh Pasdaran Velayat, or NOPO, was the only force Ali Khamenei trusted.It was founded in 1991 and is more feared than the Revolutionary Guards.

Peaceful power transfers followed uprisings in India’s neighbourhood. It’s a sign of mature democracies

Rating democracies is a tricky business. I am only using the simple metric of who in the Indian subcontinent has had the most peaceful, stable, normal political transitions and continuity.