China’s BRI runs into a wall
Smaller nations like Nepal and Sri Lanka are increasingly subjecting the Chinese investment model to greater scrutiny as they realise that it takes away more from them than it offers
World
Will China clock a peaceful rise?
Long speeches are not always statusquoists or meant to put the audience to sleep. Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro holds some impressive records—four and a half hours in the UN and a whopping 7 hours and 10 minutes in the party congress in 1986.
Has Nepal’s left unity created space for China?
China is selling dreams for a price – greater influence over the Himalayan state
Aftermath of the 2015 blockade in Nepal
The 2015 Madhes blockade has changed the matrix of politics in this region of Nepal
‘Nepal has to be mindful when engaging with the Chinese’
Shekhar Koirala,
The Saudi ’turm-oil’
With Saudi Arabia in the firm grip of a political crisis, India and the world must prepare for a steep rise in oil prices.
Bitcoin as a ‘panic’ currency
Is bitcoin a revolution? The recent surge in the value of the cryptocurrency would suggest so.
China's access to the Indian Ocean
China cannot give up its newly- won access to the Indian Ocean and Myanmar's strategic importance to Beijing cannot, therefore, be overestimated.More than 60 per cent of the world’s oil shipments pass through the Indian Ocean from the Middle East’s oil field to China, Japan and other strong economies in the region, as does 70 per cent of all container traffic to and from the Asian industrial countries
Swadeshi Jagran Manch Cautions Government to watch its step at WTO
Once at the helm of opposing China, the Manch finds itself using China as an example to keep the WTO at bay, will the government listen?
Hardnews Bureau
Paradise Papers: The moral dilemmas of tax avoidance
The tranche of documents uncovered recently has not only brought several stalwarts of Indian politics, cinema industry, and business tycoons under scanner but has also thrown up pertinent questions over the moral dilemmas of avoiding tax
Mohan Guruswamy