The wrangling may delay PM Modi’s plan to bolster India’s manufacturing capacity and could deter overseas investors, who invested $30 billion in the six months to September 2020.
Taiwan’s role in the world economy largely existed below the radar, until it came to recent prominence as the auto industry suffered shortfalls in chips.
Saturday's sortie of military aircraft, including bombers, was the third-largest such incursion by PLA in the past year, and sends an early warning to Biden.
China is using its military muscle to aggressively assert its territorial claims in neighbouring seas, ratcheting up pressure on the island, which Beijing deems a renegade province.
Relations have worsened between Washington and Beijing after US State Department approved $1.8 billion in arms sales to Taiwan, which China considers part of its territory.
Taiwan, which last recorded a community infection case on 12 April, had so far managed to keep its total number of Covid-19 cases to 770, with just seven deaths.
The top 5 spots in Bloomberg’s Covid Resilience Ranking climbed about 15% on average, compared with below 2% for the bottom 5 — Mexico, Argentina, Peru, Belgium, Czech Republic.
The US-China Economic and Security Review Commission says some evidence suggested the Chinese govt had planned the incident, potentially including the possibility of fatalities.
While bond yields tend to fall amid low inflation & interest rate cuts, market experts say they’ve been rising due to concerns over tax collections, fiscal deficit & potential impact of US tariffs.
It is one of the most advanced long-range air defence and anti-missile radars. It has been acquired under an about USD 145-million deal signed in 2020.
In its toughest time in decades because of floods, Punjab would’ve expected PM Modi to visit. If he has the time for a Bihar tour, why not a short visit to next-door Punjab?
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