More than 100 countries—including China, India, Brazil, and South Africa—face serious obstacles that could hinder their efforts to become high-income countries in the next few decades, according to a new World Bank study that provides the first comprehensive roadmap to enable developing countries to escape the “middle-income trap.” Read More Here
As China, India and others vie to be the Global South’s champion, Southeast Asia’s complexities challenge the one-size-fits-all narrative. Read More Here
The alliance of convenience between Russia and China threatens not only to accelerate an increasingly overstretched America’s relative decline, but also to erode Indian security. Read More Here
There’s already some discord between the two countries when it comes to China, but there are areas where they could work on similar approaches. Read More Here
The Indian leader treads a fine line between maintaining a longstanding relationship with Moscow and courting closer ties with the West. Read More Here
China and US in a heated race to establish bases and start extracting resources from the moon, asteroids and beyond. Read More Here
Xi Jinping visits Kazakhstan and Tajikistan as the region is increasingly looking to Beijing for security and investment guarantees, analyst says. Read More Here
The U.S.-European relationship will have several practical benefits for Washington’s rivalry with Beijing. Read More Here
iPhone sales slip as government imposes bans and local rivals seize market share but Apple still uses Chinese firms for over 80% of its supplies. Read More Here
Would a China-Russia axis defeat US and its allies in a major conventional war? Here’s what the math says. Read More Here
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