Opinion

Kent Harrington Like the leading character in a long-running television series, North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has kicked off the latest crisis on the Korean Peninsula with familiar theatrics. After cutting off all communications with South Korea, the Kim regime bombed the building in which...

Bharat Jhunjhunwala Delhi-based Observer Research Foundation has said that today China is leading the world in a number of technologies such as in genetics, hypersonics (faster than sound), 5G Internet and facial recognition through Artificial Intelligence. In coming times, the technologies of 5G, Artificial Intelligence,...

Daron Acemoglu With more than$7.5 trillion owed to external creditors, emerging economies' debt-service costs are becoming increasingly onerous just when they need as much fiscal space as possible to confront the Covid-19 crisis. While there is a strong case for cancelling much of this debt,...

Ashok Mahapatra In cooperation with other QUAD members, expand its membership to include countries whose territory is being claimed by China and form our own Garland of Coalition. Ever since the 1972 meeting between Mao Zedong and Richard Nixon, the world has accepted a One...

Santosh Kumar Mohapatra The Centre is on a privatization spree despite the hits the economy has taken in the context of the COVID-linked lockdown. The stress is on shaping a “more coherent” Public Sector Enterprises (CPSEs) Policy. It is a moot point whether the nation...

Ajit Ranade The border conflict in eastern Ladakh has claimed 20 brave soldiers -- the worst casualty along the India-China border in more than 50 years. At best of times, the line of actual control (LAC) which is not an internationally recognised border bristles with...

SN Misra Of the various COVID-linked economic packages announced by the government, an additional allocation of Rs 40,000 crore under the MGNREGA programme has attracted special attention. The prime reason for this is that it is likely to create additional 300 crore man-days of work...

Saeed Naqvi A strategy to undermine China beyond recovery has been spelt out by closet Sinologist in Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s cabinet, Ramdas Athawale. He isan MP from Maharashtra and Union minister of state for social justice and empowerment. He exhorted the nation on the...

Philip N. Howard Would you believe that the coronavirus was developed by a government to weaken its foreign rivals? Or that “patriots” created it to foment a revolution against “big government” and the “deep state”? Sadly, far too many people who have encountered such disinformation...

Kevin Rudd and Daniel Rosen Back in 2013, the Chinese government laid out a policy agenda that promised real reforms to an economy laden with debt and distorted by the influence of the country’s large state-owned enterprise (SOE) sector. But instead of seeing that agenda...