Is Africa Changing China?
“[Chinese] involvement in Africa seems to have produced a significant transformation in the certitudes that have guided its foreign policy for five decades. Africa is, in short, changing how China...
View ArticleWest Asia: Distortions Revealed
The Saudi Arabian bombing on Yemen last week has revealed clearly the distortions in the wars in West Asia, all of them proxy battles for supremacy between the Saudis and the Iranians. The Saudi air...
View ArticleMake German Mittelstand in India
Prime Minister Narendra Modi makes his first official visit to Germany when, together with Chancellor Angela Merkel, he opens the Hannover Messe 2015 on 12th April. The annual Messe is the world’s...
View ArticleCan Uber in China counter local e-taxis?
Uber, the mobile app-based taxi service, is quickly expanding across the world as it attempts to become the Google or the Facebook of the crowd-sourced transport industry. Recently valued at over $41...
View ArticleOBOR and India’s security concerns
Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to China, starting on May 14, is the first time Chinese President Xi Jinping will receive a foreign leader at a location outside Beijing—the two will meet in Xi’an,...
View ArticleStock Markets: ‘Modi Premium’ fading?
As Prime Minister Narendra Modi completes one year in office, a sense of despondency pervades the customary reviews that ritually accompany such an event. Rumblings of discontent have emerged from...
View ArticleDe-risking rising oil prices
After falling more than 60% from 2014 levels, the price of petroleum has risen sharply—from $46.7 per barrel in early February to $66.5 per barrel in early May. As a result, the price of India’s crude...
View ArticleCan Cuba become a Singapore?
The U.S.’ withdrawal of Cuba from its list of “states sponsoring terrorism” on May 29, 2015, after over 20 years, was the first step in Presidents Barack Obama and Raul Castro’s agreement in December...
View ArticleCan Europe overcome its crisis?
Europe is once again in the midst of a standoff, a battle of wills and nerves over the issue of Greece’s unsustainable and insurmountable debt, and the growing possibility of a “Grexit” from the...
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