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Roving Periscope: India may use economics to fight Chinese politics

December 16, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Like other import-dependent countries gradually shifting their options from China to other nations—even through trade wars, as the US—India is also recalibrating its supply chains after nearly 20 years and may announce new measures to curb Chinese imports in Budget 2023. With the globalization of the world economy, geoeconomics has […]

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Business

Covid-19: As China’s pandemic numbers go up, economic numbers slide down

December 15, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit     New Delhi: China is a classic example of the phrase: ‘You are damned if you do, and you are damned if you don’t!’ Its brutal Zero Covid policy kept the factories closed and people locked at home for weeks and months until protests forced the government to abandon it in November; […]

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Amid Ukraine war: Ailing, Putin cancels year-end press meet for 1st time since 2012

December 13, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Amid reports about his poor health and the Russian army’s ‘reverses’ in Ukraine, President Vladimir Putin, 70, for the first time in 10 years, canceled his annual press meet in December. The media reported on Tuesday that this cancellation further sparked rumors about his failing health. Kremlin spokesperson Dmitry Peskov, […]

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Business

Tory Pariwar: Six weeks into office, British PM Rishi Sunak faces a fresh revolt!

December 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: A century ago, India was the ‘Jewel in the British Crown.’ In the 2020s, India’s Janata Pariwar experiments in political and economic instability, of the 1970s and 1990s vintage, may have shifted to Great Britain, which currently has an Indian-origin Prime Minister in Rishi Sunak Just six weeks into office, […]

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Roving Periscope: With Finance Track, India starts rolling out year-long G20 meetings

December 12, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After the inaugural Sherpa Track Meeting of India’s G20 Presidency, held on December 4 at Udaipur, Rajasthan, the first meeting of the Finance Track of the Group involving central bank officials and finance ministry bureaucrats of the member countries, or the Finance and Central Bank Deputies (FCBD), will start in […]

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Defence

Roving Periscope: No Zero Covid policy may now overwhelm China with infections!

December 9, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: After three years of stringent Zero Covid policy, China’s rapid abandonment of mass testing, lockdowns, and centralized quarantine may overwhelm the world’s most populous country with fresh waves of infections, ahead of the Chinese New Lunar Year on January 22, 2023, when millions of holidaying people traditionally migrate within the […]

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Roving Periscope: As Beijing relaxes Zero Covid norms, the virus may now infect most Chinese

December 8, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Just a day after China relaxed the Zero Covid restrictions because of countrywide protests against the government’s policy, a senior health policy adviser warned that the vast majority of the country’s population may eventually contract the virus, the media reported on Thursday. The warning came ahead of the next year’s […]

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Zero Covid: China relents, eases curbs to contain mass agitation against Xi regime

December 7, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: Rattled to the core because of widespread mass agitations against Zero Covid policy and the Communist regime led by President Xi Jinping, China on Wednesday eased many pandemic restrictions, allowed some people to quarantine at home rather than in centralized camps, and scrapped compulsory test requirements to enter most public […]

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Business

Roving Periscope: Jack Ma in Japan, as pressure mounts on Xi Jinping to quit

November 30, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit    New Delhi: On October 22, his immediate predecessor, Hu Jintao, 79, was unceremoniously bundled out of the quinquennial 20th National Congress of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP)—with current embattled President Xi Jinping, 69, who had just got an unprecedented third term in office, nodding in the full glare of cameras! On Thursday, […]

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Defence

Ukraine: Western sanctions-hit Russia requests India to provide over 500 spare parts

November 29, 2022 virendra pandit

Virendra Pandit   New Delhi: Severely hit because of the West and its allies’ comprehensive sanctions, the invasion of Ukraine which Russia started on February 24 this year is now biting Moscow itself, forcing it to request New Delhi to deliver spare parts for hundreds of products urgently. According to the reports on Tuesday, Russia’s […]

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