... ASEAN to play a larger diplomatic role in the Asia-Pacific region? What is the future of the Asia-Pacific region?
Maavak: Southeast Asia is a colorful tapestry weaved by aeons of indigenous cultures as well as civilizational strands from China and India. By virtue of being bridges between both ancient civilizations, ASEAN is a natural buffer of stability as well as a beltway for prosperity.
These unique factors alone equip ASEAN to play larger arbitration and diplomatic roles in the Asia Pacific ...
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- 12.03.2016 02:29:00
... alone. Asia was projected to need $8US trillion worth of basic infrastructural projects for the 2010-2020 period, in order to lift its citizens out of poverty. This is a just a fraction of the critical infrastructural and logistics deficit worldwide. India alone has close to 300 million people who live on less than $1.25 per day on purchasing power parity and here is where close ties forged by Xi Jinping and Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi can make a difference. China is facilitating trade and ...
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- 06.03.2016 05:41:00
... their voluntary goals of dramatically reducing carbon emissions by that time.
Back in 2012 when still at Goldman Sachs, Jim O'Neill, the creator of the BRIC (now BRICS) model, predicted that the combined GDP of eight countries-- China, Russia, India, Brazil, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea and Indonesia-- will account for about a third of the world economy by 2020. The G7 countries – Germany, the United States, Japan, Great Britain, Canada, France and Italy – will account for just over ...
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- 23.01.2016 03:25:00
On November 30th, Narendra Modi, Indian prime minister and François Hollande, president of France, launched together the “International Solar Alliance”. With the aim of providing developing countries with the technology for exploiting solar energy, Modi is heading ...
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- 04.12.2015 19:11:00
... Country with strong mobile base has been successfully been able to penetrate the E-Commerce business. Russia with a mobile base close to 122 million in 2017 from 105 million in 2011 has seen a growth of hardly only 20% in six years. Where as country like India has seen a got a mobile user base of more than a Billion. According to Moscow’s Data Insight, Russia has a 10.4 billion euro ecommerce market in 2013, up 27 percent from 2012. This represented a mere 2% of the total retail market. The largest ...
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- 05.06.2015 10:15:00
... even constitute a significant portion of GDP Recently, as the Ruble has deprecated by more than 50%, this is an ideal opportunity for Russian economy to look at alternate Industry, which can increase the inflow of USD, and increase job creation too. India has been a global leader in IT sector, if Russia and India can create a joint working framework where Russia could utilize India’s expertise, then this initiative could hugely benefit the Russian Economy. Saturated Segment of Existing IT business: ...
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- 12.05.2015 18:07:00
... designed to make the group a key player in the global food security regime. But they did. Now the world is waiting.
From a moral and business ethics perspective the effort makes sense and can add value to the BRICS brand.
But success depends on China, India and Brazil, who are impacted by drought and infrastructure problems that step on their economic performance. And Russia is dealing with a sanctions regime that includes food, orchestrated by Washington and its European allies.
BRICS food security....
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- 08.05.2015 02:57:00
... as opposed to domestic development. There are ample potential partners already willing to cooperate and engage such wishes. After all, the aforementioned Israeli Heron-1 platform has already been sold in recent years to Brazil, France, Germany, and India. Greater Asia Singapore joined the above list of Heron-1 acquirers in 2012. Unlike other countries, Singapore emphasized how the acquisition was just the first step in its long-term plans. Ultimately, success in the drone era according to Singapore ...
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- 05.04.2015 07:42:00
... weight when the rest of the world is measuring the items by units. This is the situation with bulk iron ore and simple steel production.
Devaluation of the ruble is increasing demand for Russian ore and steel, notably at the expense of producers in India.
Meanwhile state and parastatal companies based in China and Hong Kong use clever methods to dominate world iron ore and crude steel production and their logistics. To assume that Chinese executives do not discuss price and logistics issues with ...
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- 02.03.2015 17:45:00
On the eve of prime minister Narendra Modi’s visit to Washington, the Obama administration and friendly media have positioned the new Indian leader as a leader who is open to reforming big government and implementing free market policies. But critics of Modi say that the much heralded economic performance of his Gurajat state, based on Gross Domestic Product (GDP), is merely at parity ...
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- 02.10.2014 20:25:00
... that the Islamic population in Brazil is 204,000. But the website of the leading Islamic organization in Brazil claims that number should be 2 million. That figure is more than the 1.4 million Emirati citizens who occupy the United Arab Emirates.
India, with the largest Islamic population among the BRICS, shares porous borders with Islamic Pakistan (178 million) and Bangladesh (158 million), and beyond the headlines the relations between those nations are, and will continue to be problematic.
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- 14.07.2014 04:38:00
The complexity of India’s foreign policy and domestic power dilemmas has led to many Western states inaccurately judging the country’s approach to intelligence strategy. India’s intelligence challenges break down most effectively into the categories of ...
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- 03.05.2014 02:48:00
... public relations as a vehicle wrap to their interest in maintaining global hegemony in a socially inclusive wrapper—is subject to debate.
The New York Times recently added Brazil to its list of “struggling economies” that includes India and South Korea, among others. Yet when the media empire was struggling financially it took a $250 million loan from the world’s richest man, Carlos Slim of Mexico, Russian media didn’t call out The New York Times for having financial ...
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- 31.01.2014 03:43:00
Despite the degree of uniqueness stemming from its particular specifics, each case of nuclear weapons proliferation also exemplifies one or more of the five main determinants of a state’s decision to acquire nuclear weapons that have been identified in the relevant literature: security, domestic politics, norms, technology and economics. While recognising the complexity of multi-causality, I would argue that a careful analysis of existing cases leads to sufficient explanations about the general...
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- 19.10.2013 23:17:00
As India braces up for the upcoming general elections, speculation with regard to the likely outcome of the elections and the likely Prime Minister is expectedly increasing by the day. Irrespective of the verdict of 2014, one thing is clear that Indian politics ...
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- 11.06.2013 22:36:00
... office -- has performed reasonably well is the realm of foreign policy. This assertion is borne out by a number of points. Firstly, Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh has been bold and pragmatic in reaching out to Pakistan, much to the chagrin of hawks in India – including many in his party. Second, he has also kept the relationship with Tehran intact, while ensuring that ties with Washington do not get affected too much. Finally, during the course of his interaction with Chinese Premier Li Keqiang ...
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- 23.05.2013 13:23:00
India entered the 21st century as a challenger for the role of a global center of influence, alongside the United States and China. Strategic partnership between Russia and India is a natural phenomenon and objective reality. The two countries’ ...
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- 16.05.2013 12:00:00
