Category International Relations and Strategic Studies

Tesla’s Tumult: How Elon Musk’s Politics Are Driving the Company Off Course

Tesla shares are at a five-month low, Tesla showrooms are being vandalized in different parts of the United States, Tesla cybertrucks have been set on fire in Seattle, its sales are down in the US as well as in Europe. That President Trump has bought a Tesla car might seem like good news, consisting of support at the highest level. But that might only serve to worsen Tesla’s fortunes.

Advancing Innovation: ASEAN-India Science and Technology Partnership

The ASEAN-India Science and Technology Cooperation is a very important framework which fosters innovation and research collaboration in the region. A strategic and well-implemented approach is essential to maximise the impact of the cooperation. By strengthening the funding mechanism in which the contributions from ASEAN member states will be increased so that the cooperation equally impacts all the concerned states. The contribution will depend on their GDP and their technological capacity. This will provide better financial support for large-scale projects, thus leading to technological advancements and regional integration.

Modi Courts Trump While Keeping India’s Trade Defenses Up

US president Donald Trump would be horrified if told that he is proving Lenin right, but that is what he has been doing in the eight weeks since he assumed office. Obviously, he is not vindicating everything that Lenin said, just the observation that there are decades in which nothing happens and there are weeks in which decades happen. Trump has been making decades happen.

Trump’s Trade Fallacies: From Tariffs to India’s GST

Billionaire investor Warren Buffett has called out US President Donald Trump’s proposed tariffs on imports into the country, saying the import duties would not be paid by some tooth fairy, but by American consumers, and so amounts to a tax on US citizens. This is wholesome fact-checking.

Transforming Global Trade: The Trade Facilitation Agreement Amendment 2017

Policy UpdateR Sonali Devi “Trade without borders is a vision of progress; trade with efficiency is the reality of opportunity.”                          – Anonymous I. Introduction For several decades, traders delivering products across borders have been constrained by regulatory obstacles and “paperwork.”…

Global Tensions and Economic Shifts: The Trump Effect on Trade, Markets, and Geopolitics

The past week’s events have been dominated, once again, by US president Donald Trump. He has gleefully levied tariffs of 25% on imports from Canada and Mexico, and 20% on imports from China, renamed the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of America, announced that he is taking over the Panama Canal, built with American blood and treasure but given away to Panama by President Carter in a bout of idiocy that, according to the Trumpian worldview, tends to afflict people who are not Trump. President Trump also extended a warm welcome to the people of Greenland to join the United States, bringing with them their vast territory of strategic importance to the United States and bearing critical minerals.

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