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Friday, November 7, 2025
TopicCommunism

Topic: Communism

How Jack Ma made rich capitalists acceptable in communist China

Lulu Yilun Chen -
Ma showed that an innovative private enterprise could thrive under a Communist regime once hostile, and still at times suspicious, of ambitious capitalists.

The echo chamber is the enemy of democracy

Cass Sunstein -
New Yorker editor's move to withdraw invitation to former White House strategist Steve Bannon has sparked a huge controversy.

Atheist CPI(M) to ‘back’ Ramayana month events in Kerala

Ruhi Tewari -
The party claims the idea is to encourage Sanskrit scholars vying to protect religion from communal forces.

Communism in Nepal is of a home grown variety, rooted in Hindu moorings

Seshadri Chari -
While Nepal has assured Prime Minister Narendra Modi that its soil will not be used in any manner to challenge New Delhi, losing control over Nepal’s economic reconstruction would be a strategic setback for India.

The Left is dying, but Leftism is alive and kicking

TN Ninan -
If the two principal parties have turned away from the “neo-liberal” agenda, they must agree the electorate isn't interested in those ideas.

Lenin’s dead and desecrated. But rules on in Indian economic thought, from Rahul to Modi

Shekhar Gupta -
The Left is on its political deathbed but its economic ideology still rules India, with Narendra Modi its newest torchbearer.

Global Pulse: A new ‘end of history’?

Sanya Dhingra -
Is there anything really unprecedented about this era? Or are we, like past generations, taken over by “the parochialism of the present"?

Global Pulse: Eastern countries are symbols of EU’s failure; Boko Haram’s gruesome record

Sanya Dhingra -
Once a beacon for post-Communist integration into Europe, the Vicegrad Group now symbolises the European Union's failure.

Global Pulse: Raqqa is captured, but ISIS still has time on its side; China’s National Congress: diligent or dogmatic?

Sanya Dhingra -
American-backed forces may claim to have seized the northern Syrian city of Raqqa, but the Islamic State is not beaten and will return.

Global Pulse: Xi is creating an alternative to the West, Trump’s hollowed-out bureaucracy 

Sanya Dhingra -
Xi Jinping’s goal is not only to reform China, but create a global alternative to the West.
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Opinion

Trump’s unpredictability is not the absence of strategy—it works on everyone but China

Swasti Rao -
The Italian term sprezzatura—a studied nonchalance that conceals intention—best captures the spirit of Trump’s foreign policy so far. The pattern is unpredictability, transactionalism, and disruption as diplomacy.

Mamdani must face blind spots of his Muslim identity—and the wrongs done in its name

SIR drive isn’t NRC-CAA—it can exclude millions of genuine voters, not just Muslims

Economy

Asia’s ‘weakest’ link: Yunus on a tightrope as Bangladesh tries to fix banks without breaking economy

+TFP Debdutta Chakraborty -
With 20.2 percent of its total loans in default by the end of last year, Bangladesh had the weakest banking system in Asia. Despite reforms, it will take time to recover.

Defence

‘Let them see’: Putin says new nuclear-powered missiles in the making, in message to Washington

Keshav Padmanabhan -
At a ceremony felicitating Russian military engineers, Putin highlights Moscow’s 'parity' in defence technologies for the next century.

National Interest

Trump’s trade wars have rewritten powerplay, but India didn’t get the memo

Shekhar Gupta -
This world is being restructured and redrawn by one man, and what’s his power? It’s not his formidable military. It’s trade. With China, it turned on him.

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