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Quiet, for now
- Phase one trade deal
- NOTE: It is a temporary truce that leaves the key issues of the trade dispute unresolved.
- It still leaves intact nearly 3/4th of punitive tariffs slapped on China.
- China is to buy $200-billion in goods and services in the coming 2 years.
- U.S. President Donald Trump and Chinese Vice-Premier Liu He
- Agricultural exports form the smallest proportion of the latest offers relative to manufactured goods and services.
- China has given assurances to remove barriers for American banking, insurance and other financial services.
- IP protection and alleged forced technology transfers.
- Washington has invoked provisions on threats to its national security to punish adversaries.
- Mr. Trump has said that negotiations on a phase two agreement would begin immediately and even hinted that he could travel to Beijing.
- Questions over government control of China’s state-owned firms and industrial subsidies — at the core the bilateral dispute — are not expected to be resolved until after the 2020 U.S. Presidential elections.
Fighting radicalisation
- Raisina dialogue organised by the Ministry of External Affairs and Observer Research Foundation at New Delhi.
- There has been a significant increase in radicalisation among young people in Kashmir — “girls and boys as young as 10-12”, included.
- He suggested that youth should be “isolated from radicalisation in a gradual way” and to be “taken out separately and possibly taken into some deradicalisation camps”.
- He also revealed that such camps existed in the country.
- There is no doubt that radicalisation must be countered at all levels, whether in Kashmir or elsewhere.
- Decade ago: terrorism and violence had reduced drastically when compared to the 1990s.
- Today, the ground has become fertile for the revival of radicalism
- Deradicalisation is best achieved through effective teaching and incorporation of civic studies in the school curriculum for children who are getting radicalised due to the prevailing circumstances in the Valley.
- Besides this, there has to be an administrative outreach to the citizenry not to give in to radical demands and the rhetoric of extremists.
One government proposes, the next disposes
- Cancelled or put on hold a number of high-profile State contracts and projects.
- It will be extremely hard for the State to attract foreign investors in future.
- Without investments, it will be harder for the State to raise the revenues it needs for social programmes and economic development.
- For Amaravati, Mr. Naidu was trying to transform a rural area into a massive, advanced greenfield city.
- Today, over four years after Prime Minister Narendra Modi laid Amaravati’s foundation stone, little is there save a number of temporary government office buildings.
- Neighbouring business-friendly Hyderabad has attracted many ambitious Andhra Pradesh residents and foreign investors.
- Cancelling multiple high-profile public projects may imperil CM’s ability to deliver on his most important goal: to create new jobs and opportunities in the State.
- Legal challenges
- Stakeholders have a real voice in the outcome?
- Investors look to the overall commercial environment before deciding whether to commit funds.
- Create governing rules and bureaucracies that are more durable than any one leader or administration.
- Any new Indian State government must take into account the Modi government’s encouragement of competitive federalism.
- Newly-elected governments certainly have the right to review potentially unjust or unwarranted deals.
- However, a State must be careful to provide explicit and clear evidence when making its case to trigger such reviews
NEWS
- Nirbhaya killers to hang on February 1
- Citizens can skip question on place of birth of parents in NPR form, says Centre
- No documents are required to be shown by people during the NPR and Census exercise: Minister
- Two bull owners, spectator gored to death in T.N.
- GSAT-30 gives India a communication boost
- The 3,357-kg satellite will replace INSAT-4A, which was launched in 2005 and marks the first mission of the year for Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO).
- Merger plan of RSTV and LSTV in final stages
- ‘Peace with India only if Kashmir issue resolved’
- U.K. plans govt.-to-govt. framework for future defence deals with India
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