India holds ground at WTOIndia holds ground at WTO
The Bali agreement which gave weight to the existence of the World Trade Organisation was finally passed and sanctioned by 159 member states last week. Although India adamantly held fort over her stance on food subsidies opposing a majority of nations, the Bali...
China establishes an air defence identification zoneChina establishes an air defence identification zone
Earlier this week China asserted her territorial control in the region by identifying an air defence identification zone over what she claims is her space. Not unusual for a nation to otherwise do so, what Beijing probably didn’t expect was an international...
Two friends just catching up
A confidence building measure was all that Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s visit to China was. Sandwiched between corruption scandals and a floundering economy at home, the Indian prime minister failed to make waves in China. While the governments signed nine...
Will the border issue ever be resolved?
Sure, its the meeting of heads of state of Asia’s largest economies, yet maybe we shouldn’t be making such a big deal about it. Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s two day trip to Beijing from Moscow isn’t expected to bolster trade or solve our age...