With the IPEF texts expected to be finalised and released during the forthcoming APEC Leaders’ meeting at San Francisco scheduled…
Intra-group ties become further complicated with the entry of Iran and Saudi Arabia
The mediator’s cut Premium Story
China’s donning of the mediator mantle is driven purely by its economic considerations
India at IPEF–Trade pillar exit pragmatic, but… Premium Story
The country must not let its negotiating discomfort across regulatory areas become a permanent feature.
The ‘new’ India has taken many, particularly those familiar with a stubborn and obstructive India at the WTO, by surprise.…
Much of the conversation in the days ahead will focus on the relationship between the IPEF and the RCEP. The…
Russia’s exclusion from payments networks has positioned trading in stable sovereign digital currencies as a much-preferred option
From March/April 2020, countries began closing borders. The decisions were taken abruptly without giving millions across the world the opportunity…
Easing Covid-19 vaccine access for all—so far determined by bilateral deals and producer companies and facilities like Covax—must be the…
Avoiding mention of an FTA during the recent visit of the USTR to India reflects policy maturity and pragmatism on…
This will allow the country to engage in commerce-as-usual with Japan, Canada, etc, no matter how bad political relations get.…
Countries must focus on expanding domestic vaccination to take care of any contraction threats from travellers
The closed vaccine value-chain geography prevents egalitarian distribution of vaccines. Such a possibility, which might have come from patent waivers,…
If patents continue to determine global access to vaccines and drugs, then fighting Covid-19 will remain a distant dream for…
Apart from fanning vaccine nationalism, this will also exacerbate the inequality between nations in terms of access to vaccine
India has displayed policy maturity and pragmatism in recent weeks by reassessing the possibility of reviving Chinese investments in the…
The crux of the negotiations would be reciprocal market access in services. Both India and the UK have ‘offensive’ interests…
The trade deal will establish China’s dominance of trade With the ASEAN. If the Biden presidency is keen on CPTPP+US,…
