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Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
Detailed stories on technology startups, business and economic current affairs.
US President Donald Trump’s showdown with visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy undermines global norms and weakens India’s strategic position against China.
Unless you are living under a rock, which you aren't if you are reading this newsletter, you would have noticed the blistering encounter at the White House between visiting Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and US President Donald Trump and his deputy J.D. Vance. Trump, betraying his reality television origins, remarked towards the end of the remarkable episode, “This is going to be great television, I will say that.”
It may have made for great entertainment—the circuses part of the Roman ‘panem et circenses’—but it threatens global stability. Some worry that this event is as significant as the assassination of Archduke …
Influence cannot be manufactured through diaspora networks, carefully branded events or political donations. It requires honesty and credibility.
Chinese diplomats to India are saying all the right things for Indian ears, but Beijing’s policy actions are moving in the opposite direction.
The country's fighter jet roadmap rests on imported propulsion, leaving its military plans hostage to cost shocks, delays and geopolitics.
