In 2007, China began implementing the strategy encapsulating the new world reality that “data is the new oil“. Through the control of data and information,…
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Late last week, LinkedIn, a business-focused social media platform run by tech giant Microsoft, ceased its China service with dramatic consequences for millions of job…
With the implementation of a new regulatory framework and a rise in coronavirus cases, China’s economy has experienced a major slowdown lately. Initially coping with…
With the increasing development of smart supply chains and logistics and the desire to take these to a global standard, those managing the process need…
“A battle is won by the side that is determined to win”, says Andrey Bolkonsky in Tolstoy’s famous novel War and Peace. Over a century…
The clouds have returned to the Sino-Indian sky, making the horizon even grayer for the relations between the Elephant and the Dragon. On November 24,…
In 2003, when I first travelled to Tokyo from my newly furnished home in Shanghai, Japan was a technologically isolated ‘Galapagos island’ way ahead of…
This article was originally published on The Kootneeti, on June 23, 2020. Thank you to The Kootneeti for their kind authorisation to re-publish. India’s trade…
As the Covid-19 pandemic has affected more than 200 countries and territories, infecting over 7 million people and killing more than 400,000, it is clear…
Held two months late, and under the specter of an uncertain global future, the annual meetings of the People’s Political Consultative Conference and National People’s…