India has deployed supersonic cruise missiles to Arunachal in the northeast, and China promised counter-measures. India developed the missiles with Russia. “The deployment of the cruise missiles is the latest in what is starting to look like an arms race between the two countries, which have...
New Delhi’s decision to deploy the BrahMos supersonic missile – the world’s fastest anti-ship cruise missile, which can fly at 2.8 times the speed of sound – in the disputed northeast state of Arunachal, has left its rival and neighbor fuming as big...
The Venezuelan president announced plans to increase oil exports to China tenfold over the next five years, with the expectation that China will invest in the nation’s oil infrastructure, particularly in developing the reserves of the Orinoco Belt. The heavy tar-like reserves, which require special...
Thumbs up for oil power: Venzuela's President Hugo Chavez signed a deal to get Chinese investment in developing his country's oil resource
NEW YORK AND CARACAS: Hugo Chávez ended his recent visit to Beijing with...
Around the globe, more women and men are delaying childbirth, with many deciding against having children altogether. Economic recession, high unemployment rates, education and career ambitions contribute to the phenomenon. Among most developed nations, one in 10 women in their late 40s have no...
All the single ladies: Childlessness is no longer rare with women's rising education levels; about one out of four Italian women in their late 40s have no children, top, and in India, it's about one out of 30
NEW YORK: While considerable media...
The Global Adjustment Fund is proposed as a new measure to help Europe’s economy absorb the effects of globalization. The fund will assist retraining and relocating workers whose jobs have been eliminated in ways demonstrably tied to global trade dynamics, such as outsourcing. The proposed fund...
BRUSSELS In a bid to soften the blow of globalization on Europe's economy, the president of the European Commission, José Manuel Barroso, will propose a fund of half a billion euros Wednesday to provide new skills and...
The recent Chinese acquisition of the IBM PC division does not illustrate China's rise at the expense of the US. Rather, it signals a deeper shift in the information technology (IT) business, which has been changing the global economic landscape. Jean-Pierre Lehmann contends that the shift...
Wanna hold your hand: Lenovo Chairman Liu Chuanzhi (Left) with John Joyce, Senior Vice-President of IBM Global Services, at a ceremony in Beijing December 8, 2004, cementing the new relationship
NEW DELHI: The recent...
India is poised to overtake China as the world’s most populous country by 2024. Poverty is linked to fertility rates, and individual and government attention to population trends contributes to sustainable development. Both China and India have reduced fertility rates and poverty since 1950, when...
Demographic rise: India’s rising population will need sustenance from expanded IT and other skilled workers; the country must contend with a preponderance of male children
NEW YORK: By 2024, India will slip past China to become the most populous...
Henry Kissinger secretly visited China in 1971 to restore US ties, and the Chinese have respected him since. With a trade war underway and US concerns about intellectual property theft, the relationship has soured and transformed: from co-evolution, described by Kissinger as pursuit of domestic...
Then and now: Henry Kissinger, former US national security adviser, plans for opening China with Premier Zhou Enlai during a secret trip to Beijing in 1971, and almost five decades later, Xi Jinping and Donald Trump discuss trade over a more...
Societies do not have to wait for diseases like the new coronavirus to emerge and spread. Ongoing preparedness and investment can go a long way in preventing global public health crises, argues Sten Vermund, dean of the Yale School of Public Health. “Investing in one epidemic can have an impact...
