Meeting between 2 leaders comes a day before SCO Heads of State Summit in Tianjin, where Modi will meet Putin, Shehbaz Sharif, Erdogan & Ilham Aliyev, too.
Prime Minister Modi, in China for SCO summit, is in a meeting with Chinese President Xi Jinping and will hold a bilateral dialogue with Russian President Vladimir Putin Monday.
In 'Apple in China', Patrick McGee analyses how the American tech giant helped build China’s dominance in electronics—and passively cooperated with an authoritarian regime.
Since Russia’s Ukraine invasion, China has deepened economic ties with Central Asian nations, eyeing their strategic location and rich energy resources.
Trump has expressed optimism about reaching a tariff agreement ‘pretty quickly’, while Xi said that tariff & trade wars undermine the legitimate rights and interests of all countries.
Through the massive tariffs imposed on China, journalist Will Dunn says, Trump is telling other powers that the price of access to America’s markets is in obedience to America’s rules.
In three-hour podcast released Sunday, Modi also spoke about border tensions and emphasised that India-China ties have ‘always been about learning from, understanding one another’.
An article in the People’s Daily argues that foreign capital is not vanishing but shifting—moving away from traditional sectors toward high-tech and service industries.
It’s a geopolitical game changer. US, now, has primacy over oil-producing allies and adversaries alike — whether it’s Saudi Arabia or Iran, Nigeria or Russia.
The latest comment comes as New Delhi and Washington have yet to sign a trade agreement. India’s purchase of Russian oil has reduced, but Moscow remains top source for crude.
If deal goes through, Greece will be 2nd foreign country to procure vehicle. Morocco was first; TATA Group has set up manufacturing unit there with minimum 30 percent indigenous content.
Many of you might think I got something so wrong in National Interest pieces written this year. I might disagree! But some deserve a Mea Culpa. I’d deal with the most recent this week.
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