Tag Archives: China

The New Cold War

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The specter of the Cold War appears to be upon us again. Yet it may not be similar to the global tensions that gripped the world during most of the 20th century. This … Continue reading

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People’s Republic Of China, Republic Of India, And United States Of America

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Jagdish Bhagwati, the well-known trade economist at Columbia University, has raised two important points about India’s relationship with the United States in a recent report in The Economic Times, an Indian daily newspaper … Continue reading

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China And India In A Diverging World

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa (Arthur C Clarke’s conception of The Monolith – the alien technology which evolves the homo sapiens into civilization on One Earth toward One World – in Stanley Kubrik’s Space Odyssey: 2001, the rest being … Continue reading

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China

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa “Do I Fit In?” Is Asking China. “No, Not yet” is saying the rest of the world. The Nobel Committee and the United States have been rewarding and providing refuge to Chinese dissidents … Continue reading

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China: The Principal Risk To The Global Economy

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Two facts, unavoidable, have emerged on the political-economic landscape of the world. The decline of the United States is not one of them unless America makes it so. The first is the prolonged … Continue reading

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Finally, A More Humble America

By Snehal Manjrekar, India Subject Matter/Language Editor: Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa United States, together with its Western allies, has imposed severe economic sanctions on Iran, making it difficult for Iranian companies to engage in economic relationships with its … Continue reading

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The Federal Reserve’s “White Noise” Economy

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa If in linear regression models @federalreserve “white noise” and not exogenous variables always explains economic behavior why do we need economists? These days Congress no longer declares wars but the president does, circumventing … Continue reading

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Carelessness, The Afghan End Game, And The Unraveling Of America In MENA

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa In a lesser affront to American sentiments than Abu Ghraib, with the frustrations of a prolonged decade-long war in Afghanistan showing, a few US soldiers had burned copies of the Koran, Islam’s holy book, … Continue reading

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5772 And 4709: Ian Fleming And Tom Clancy On The Intrigue In The Vatican, India And Georgia

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa The playboy James Bond and the faithful, ever-righteously indignant, husband Dr. Jack Ryan are fading fast as the Chinese and Israelis are emerging from their shadows. The communists are gone and the Irish … Continue reading

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China And The Emerging World Order

By Chandrashekar (Chandra) Tamirisa, (On Twitter) @c_tamirisa Tectonic plates are shifting in geopolitics, veering ideologically toward more state control of market economies. This shift is caused and characterized primarily by the certain rise of China as the world’s largest economy by … Continue reading

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