May 2, 2021 | Connections
When the rest of the world – people and economies are falling like dominoes, China, the nursery of the virus, recorded very few COVID cases and deaths. What is more, its first-quarter GDP grew 18.3 percent year-on-year. So, what’s cooking?
Jan 4, 2021 | Geopolitics
It was in late-2007, I was a young magazine editor invited to a social do at the French Consulate in Mumbai. It was a nice party and I had had one champagne too many. Who else would I be talking to, but the then French Consul General. Having just come off a trip to Paris, I had quite a few things to say to him, mainly on the art, culture and business landscape…but also about geopolitics.
Dec 28, 2020 | Geopolitics
The fact is our nation states are recently imagined realities. They are an amalgamation of ethnic, communal and linguistic identities – each driven by powerful political forces with vested interests. So, it is easy for an invading power to divide and rule – historically and even now.
Dec 28, 2020 | Geopolitics
The Chinese don’t want to fight a war any more than we do. Their raw soldiers are being chewed by the nasty winter every day and they are not nearly as well-geared as they lead us to believe. Sure, India is decidedly the weaker side. But can we give the Chinese a bloody nose? Surely yes. So, China wants to win the war by subduing our will to fight. Propaganda is thus a force multiplier for China.
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