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…
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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…
Predictably dramatic reactions followed Beijing’s late-March announcement of yet another modification of China’s Covid-19 case statistics. Some remained objective: Time Magazine remarked that “it was…
Record-breaking year for VC investment in LatAm
2018 was another record-breaking year for venture capital investment in Latin America, with Asian investors counting as some of the most dynamic players in the…