Trade between the countries was $75.4 billion in 2011-12, against $59 billion in 2010-11. In 2011-12, exports to China stood at $17.9 billion while imports from there stood at $57.5 billion, resulting in a trade deficit of $39.6 billion. Read Here – Mint
The case of Nokia, a Finnish mobile-phone manufacturer, is well documented: it contributed a quarter to Finnish GDP growth between 1998 and 2007. But do any other countries rely so heavily on a single company? Read Here – The Economist
Over the past few years, largely out of sight, governments have been clawing back freedoms on the internet, turning an invention that was designed to emancipate the individual into a tool for surveillance and control. In the next few months, this process is set to be enshrined internationally, amid plans to put cyberspace under the authority […]
THE wave of anti-Japanese protests that has erupted across China, after tit-for-tat landings by ultra-nationalists on uninhabited islands which the Japanese call the Senkakus and the Chinese the, is alarming. Read Here – The Economist
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When the Big Picture misses the point. Read Here – Foreignpolicy.com
The more Germany tries to save the Eurozone, the more it become the union’s scapegoat. The best response: ignore the populists, and keep on trucking, Sebastian Pfeffer writes in the European. Read Here
The United Nations, aid agencies and the British Government have lined up to attack the world’s largest commodities trading company, Glencore, after it described the current global food crisis and soaring world prices as a “good” business opportunity. Read Here – The Independent
