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Shang-Jin Wei Chinese firms are more enthusiastic than most about listing on US stock exchanges. Currently, 250 companies, including those that are registered in Hong Kong or offshore centers but derive most of their revenue and profits from mainland China, trade on US equity markets....

Juan Manuel Santos In Paradise Lost, the English poet John Milton encapsulates a fundamental truth about the struggle to end a violent conflict and establish a sustainable peace:”Who overcomes by force, Hath overcome but half his foe.” This insight was crucial to my own understanding...

Rockets hitting Kabul during Eid prayers July 20 and landing near the presidential palace clearly indicate the shape of things to come in Afghanistan in the next few weeks when the pullout of US army is complete, save a handful of soldiers guarding the US...

At a time when the Indian government is locked in a tussle with social network service providers over guarding the privacy of users and preserving their right to criticise government actions and policies, a shattering report published July 18 reveals activists, politicians and journalists from...

It is an irony of history that when China is celebrating the centenary of its party, the Communist Party of China (CPC), another communist country, Cuba, is confronted with the biggest mass demonstrations for three decades against food shortage, high prices, power outage and one-party...

Few people have understood what Niti Aayog is or what it does, but its head Amitabh Kant has given his view on how to “enhance ease of doing business” in India. His answer is “single window clearances, timely clearances and land acquisition.” Kant also says...

It is often considered that the most important babu in Delhi is not the Chief Secretary but the Police Commissioner. High profile incumbents of this chair have graced Parliament and become Governors in states. Getting to be Commissioner of Police is very often a long...

Anders Auslund Russian President Vladimir Putin is obsessed with Ukraine – or, rather, with pretending that Ukraine doesn’t exist. In his annual call-in show June 30, he claimed that “Ukrainians and Russians are a single people.” He then published an article aimed at justifying that...

Mary Robinson The Covid-19 pandemic has recast the world for millions of people. Or, more correctly, the pandemic has exposed and aggravated deep inequalities of race, gender, and class across societies, and highlighted the inability of many political systems to respond in ways that protect...

Former ISRO scientist Nambi Narayanan was arrested in an espionage case in 1994. This old matter has suddenly come to surface again when the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) opposed the bail pleas of two retired Kerala police officers last week. Opposing their bail, the...