Ruchir Sharma Evaluates India on the Rules of Economic Success
The Rockefeller International Chairman and Founder of Breakout Capital looks at India on the basis of the 10 creteria he developed when he was at Morgan Stanley. Read More Here
Tag: Politics
World has to learn to live through closures
Why did Taiwan spend part of this month deliberately slowing down its own mobile internet? The civil defence exercises that opened in early August are testing what the island’s communications — reliant on undersea cables — would feel like under blockade, with bandwidth throttled on purpose to see how citizens would talk to one another […]
China says key plenum will be held in October
Top leadership body will gather in Beijing, about a month after Xi Jinping is expected to travel to the United States. Read More Here
Xi Positions China’s Ruling Party as Global Force for Progress
Xi Jinping makes a case for China’s ruling party as a force for global progress and prosperity, signalling his ambition for the country to lead global affairs.
A World Distracted by Middle East Turmoil Should Focus on Africa
The world is distracted. The war in the Middle East has fractured supply chains, unsettled oil markets, and redirected the gaze of policymakers and investors toward the Gulf and beyond. Yet while global attention fixates on conflict, a quieter, more consequential story is unfolding across 54 nations and 1.4 billion people. Africa — long mischaracterized […]
When Chinese and US leaders meet
When the leaders of China and the United States speak or meet, the world pays attention. Read More Here
Mossadegh | The Shah | Khomeini | Khamenei: Four Spirits That Haunt the Space Between Iran and America
In the Persian language, the word ruh carries a weight that the English word ‘spirit’ only partially translates. It is at once the animating breath of the living and the residual force of the dead. The ruh does not simply vanish when its vessel is extinguished. It permeates the world it once shaped, bending the […]
The Moral Thinness of Geopolitics
The crisis in world order consists more in civilizational exhaustion than geopolitical imbalance. Read More Here
When Is Donald Trump’s Golden Age?
As the United States lurches closer to a ground war in Iran, the country could not be further from the promised land. Read More Here
It’s Xi Jinping’s World, and Trump Is Just Living in It
As Donald Trump blows up the rules-based order, China is pulling ahead in the global battle for ideas. Read More Here
