Politicians can’t resist hounding companies to create more jobs. Nayan Chanda outlines how India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi rejected Apple’s proposal to set up stores because the firm could not source at least 30 percent of manufacturing materials from local vendors. “The kind of offset...
Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump have little in common but they do seem to share one goal — forcing Apple to create jobs in their own countries. Trump warned, “We’re gonna get Apple to start building...
Since 1933, the White House has hosted 14 administrations and almost 400 state dinners. Culinary trends emerged during the various periods that represented the societal zeitgeist. State dinners were characterized by modesty during the 1930s through the 1950s, gradually transforming into lavish...
North Korean nuclear programs have long been a puzzle for the international intelligence community to solve. No one is quite sure when they started, how they started, or how far along towards producing weapons-grade uranium and plutonium they are. The recent revelation by Pakistani scientist A.Q...
North Korean leader Kim Jong Il reviews his troops: Will the Pakistani revelations about his clandestine effort force him to come clean?
WASHINGTON: Recent revelations about Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan's...
Violent riots broke out in Britain in August, and researchers, searching for reasons, examined the messages relayed by rioters over social media. Many of the calls to don disguises and join the mayhem were in a dialect labeled Multicultural London English by sociolinguists and Jafaican by the media...
Join in! Looters and Multicultural London English unleash action in August
LONDON: In the aftermath of the English riots of August this year, mainstream media analysts pored over the rioters’ language, with special attention to social-media...
Water seems plentiful, but less than 3 percent of the Earth’s supply is fresh water, much of it polar ice. Agriculture represents about 70 percent of the globe’s annual water use. Exporting water-intensive crops like cotton produced in arid nations is essentially trading an essential resource away...
Real export? Virtual water: The US exports rice to water-rich Asia (top); it takes 4500 kilograms of water to produce 1 serving of beef
MILWAUKEE: In all the anguished discussion about the planet’s water shortages, one often does not hear of the...
Soccer is the most globalized sport. Owners of any sporting team demand and pay for top talent from anywhere in the world. Before 1995, soccer rules in Europe limited the number of foreign players to a handful per club. A Belgian player successfully protested that the rules violated European laws...
World at play: Brazilian-German football player Cacau (Claudemir Jeronimo Barretto), scores a goal for Germany against Australia
COLLEGE PARK: For many of the billion spectators who watch the soccer World Cup opening in Rustenburg, South Africa,...
The process of globalization continues to produce new surprises. Thomas L. Friedman, whose 1999 classic “The Lexus and the Olive Tree” has been translated in 30 languages, offers an update on globalization since his last interview with YaleGlobal editor Nayan Chanda a year ago. Friedman says that...
Thomas L. Friedman
The following is a partial transcript of Nayan Chanda's interview with the New York Times foreign affairs columnist Thomas Friedman conducted on March 25, 2004.
Nayan Chanda:...
The United States is the world’s largest economy in nominal terms and also the largest market. But flexing economic muscle could chase other major economies like China and the European Union to pursue their own partnerships. Under the Trump administration, the United States has applied economic...
The Wall Street Journal: These days, the biggest, baddest weapon in the American arsenal isn’t a missile, or a tank, or a fighter jet. It is America’s economic clout.
But here’s the tricky question: Is this weapon being overused, at the risk of...
