NYT & BBC report on rumours of shortage of cooking gas while FT looks at India’s lowering of barriers to Chinese investment and the ‘wariness’ behind it.
Norms amended as restrictions in case of investors with non-strategic, non-controlling interests was seen as adversely affecting investment flows including private equity & venture funds.
Foreign Secretary Vikram Misri met with the Executive Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs of China Ma Zhaoxu in the Indian national capital Tuesday. The dialogue took stock of the positive momentum of ties in 2025.
Rahul's attempt to read excerpts on the 2020 border crisis with China led to repeated interventions from Om Birla & protests by Rajnath Singh & Amit Shah.
Indian corporate chiefs—from Ambani to Adani—are looking to China as a solution to their tech deficit. And China views India as a market where it can offload some excess production.
Speaking at annual press conference, Army chief reiterated that India does not recognise 1963 Sino-Pakistan border pact under which Pakistan illegally ceded Shaksgam Valley to China.
Even as the Chinese Communist Party delegation also met Congress’s Salman Khurshid, the party accused the BJP of double standards for welcoming the Chinese team to its HQ.
While both India and China have carried out disengagement in Eastern Ladakh, the process of de-escalation is still under discussion & has not been agreed upon.
The financialisation of Indian household savings is one of the most important economic shifts of the past decade. But financialisation without international diversification creates fragile balance sheets.
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.
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.
China’s GDP size is five times ours. For the manufacturing sector, the asymmetry widens further to 10x. So it is not realistic to talk in terms of India replacing China as the world’s factory. What is feasible instead is to analyse the factors and constraints that have kept Make in India not the success it was expected to be. With effects on job creation and exports. And to then diligently work on reducing those limitations, in collaboration with India Inc. With the Trump administration focused on Making America Great Again, this is something we have to do on our own.
China’s GDP size is five times ours. For the manufacturing sector, the asymmetry widens further to 10x. So it is not realistic to talk in terms of India replacing China as the world’s factory. What is feasible instead is to analyse the factors and constraints that have kept Make in India not the success it was expected to be. With effects on job creation and exports. And to then diligently work on reducing those limitations, in collaboration with India Inc. With the Trump administration focused on Making America Great Again, this is something we have to do on our own.